Blog my Mind my Map

So, the good news is that I found the bug. The bad news is that it cannot be easily taken off. Essentially Dreamhost has installed an old version of MySQLdb, and buggy. This means that all the data once they get stored through python in mysql then are only stored as ascii code. And any non ascii character rises an error. So as a temporary patch I encoded everything as an ascii before sending it. And any unicode character just get replaced with a ? or similar. Amen. I hate it, but for now it is ok. I might try to install mysqldb in a separate version, but that’s in the future. For now a lot of maps which were before crashing are now not crashing anymore.

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