The disqus_export command raises an error if non-ascii characters are used.

[Gregor Müllegger]

This is the output of the command:

Exporting 3 comment(s)
Exporting comment 'Alain M. Lafon: Hiho,

you should check out the way you link on ...'
Exporting comment 'Alain M. Lafon: No links allowed? Well.. good to prevent spam, bad...'
Exporting comment 'Gregor Müllegger: You're right. I fixed it and the link should work ...'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/django", line 33, in <module>
    djangorecipe.manage.main('website.settings')
  File "/srv/gremu/eggs/djangorecipe-0.20-py2.5.egg/djangorecipe/manage.py", line 16, in main
    management.execute_manager(mod)
  File "/srv/gremu/parts/django/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 362, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "/srv/gremu/parts/django/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 303, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/srv/gremu/parts/django/django/core/management/base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/srv/gremu/parts/django/django/core/management/base.py", line 222, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/srv/gremu/eggs/django_disqus-0.3-py2.5.egg/disqus/management/commands/disqus_export.py", line 98, in handle
    created_at=comment.submit_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M'))
  File "/srv/gremu/eggs/django_disqus-0.3-py2.5.egg/disqus/api.py", line 53, in call_method
    return self.call(attr, **kwargs)
  File "/srv/gremu/eggs/django_disqus-0.3-py2.5.egg/disqus/api.py", line 77, in call
    request = self._get_request(url, self.METHODS[method], **params)
  File "/srv/gremu/eggs/django_disqus-0.3-py2.5.egg/disqus/api.py", line 67, in _get_request
    request = urllib2.Request(request_url, urlencode(params))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1250, in urlencode
    v = quote_plus(str(v))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

A --dry-run is working without any problems. The non ascii character is the
german "ü" in my last name.

[Arthur]

Hi Gregor,

I just fixed this issue in trunk. The problem was that the name was still a unicode string but should really be a byte string.

Could you try exporting comments with the current trunk revision and tell me if it works?

[ilhan]

Hi Arthurk,

same issue here, my database was latin1 but tried new clean database on utf-8 and still nothing.

EDIT
Seems like identifier and title needs encode('utf-8') before unicode() lines 112,113 in disqus_export.py