http://localhost/ticket/1798 <p> You get an exception if you use the API to search packages and specify a non-ascii character in a field other than q. </p> <p> For example: </p> <pre class="wiki">http://catalogue.data.gov.uk/api/search/package?title=%E2%80%93 </pre><p> This "N-dash" (Unicode character 2013) causes this exception: </p> <pre class="wiki">Module ckan.controllers.api:460 in search &lt;&lt; if ver in u'12': # Otherwise, put all unrecognised ones into the q parameter params = convert_legacy_parameters_to_solr(params) query = query_for(model.Package) results = query.run(params) &gt;&gt; params = convert_legacy_parameters_to_solr(params) Module ckan.lib.search.query:38 in convert_legacy_parameters_to_solr &lt;&lt; for search_key in non_solr_params: value_obj = legacy_params[search_key] value = str(value_obj).replace('+', ' ') if search_key == 'all_fields': if value: &gt;&gt; value = str(value_obj).replace('+', ' ') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 30: ordinal not in range(128) </pre><p> This problem affects CKAN 1.5 and 1.5.1 only. </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1798 Trac 0.12.3 dread Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:32:40 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1798#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1798#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>cc</strong> <em>icmurray</em> added </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Was fixed by Ian in <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/5a9054459e3833443bed3e118bbbb6c442e55b0b"><span class="icon">​</span>https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/5a9054459e3833443bed3e118bbbb6c442e55b0b</a> on branch feature-1453-flexible-tag-names. </p> <p> This has gone into CKAN 1.6. </p> Ticket