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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:32:53 +0000 (UTC)
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In <mailman.13038.1408130249.18130.python-list@python.org> Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> writes:

> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> print("Content-Type: text/html")
> print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate")    # HTTP/1.1
> print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past
> print("")
> f = open("/var/www/cgi-data/index.html", "r")
> for line in f:
>      print(line,end='')

> If access the script through a webbrowser, apache gives an error:
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
> 1791: ordinal not in range(128)

The error traceback should display exactly where the error occurs within
the script.  Which line is it?

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