Python, Docker - 'ascii' codec can't encode character

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I wrote a python3 script that does some web scraping and stores some information on a CSV<\/code> file.<\/i>

# default CSV module
import csv

# this is how an ACTUAL row looks like in my program, included it in case it was important
row = {'title': 'Electrochemical sensor for the determination of dopamine in presence of high concentration of ascorbic acid using a Fullerene-C60 coated gold electrode', 'url': 'https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/elan.200704073', 'author': 'Goyal, Rajendra Nath and Gupta, Vinod Kumar and Bachheti, Neeta and Sharma, Ram Avatar', 'abstract': 'A fullerene‐C60‐modified gold electrode is employed for the determination of dopamine in the excess of ascorbic acid using square‐wave voltammetry. Based on its strong catalytic function towards the oxidation of dopamine and ascorbic acid, the overlapping voltammetric …', 'eprint': 'http://www.academia.edu/download/3909892/Dopamene.pdf', 'publisher': 'Wiley Online Library', 'year': '2008', 'pages': '757--764', 'number': '7', 'volume': '20', 'journal': 'Electroanalysis: An International Journal Devoted to Fundamental and Practical Aspects of Electroanalysis', 'ENTRYTYPE': 'article', 'ID': 'goyal2008electrochemical'}

# the CSV writer object
writer = csv.DictWriter("file.csv", fieldnames=[a, b, c],  dialect='toMYSQL')

# this is the source of the problem!
writer.writerow(row)

Answer 1

Most containers start with LANG=C set. That can be really annoying if you're dealing with UTF-8.

Just to make sure your container starts with the right locale add -e LANG=C.UTF-8 when calling docker.