Fix CSV export with bad encoding

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ishtar_common/views_item.py b/ishtar_common/views_item.py
index 6f5dba236..dd44fb411 100644
--- a/ishtar_common/views_item.py
+++ b/ishtar_common/views_item.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import logging
 import re
 import subprocess
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
+import unidecode
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSException
@@ -1993,7 +1994,17 @@ def get_item(model, func_name, default_name, extra_request_keys=None,
                             delta += 1
                             val += data[1:][idx + delta]
                     row.append(val)
-                writer.writerow(row)
+                try:
+                    writer.writerow(row)
+                except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                    vals = []
+                    for v in row:
+                        try:
+                            vals.append(v.encode(ENCODING).decode(ENCODING))
+                        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                            vals.append(unidecode(v).encode(ENCODING).decode(
+                                ENCODING))
+                    writer.writerow(vals)
             return response
         return HttpResponse('{}', content_type='text/plain')