Problem
A user reported to us having problems when exporting the research report to PDF. We are getting this stacktrace:
2019-04-17 11:08:16,210 INFO [patzilla.navigator.services.util ][MainThread] Starting dossier export to format "zip"
2019-04-17 11:08:16,247 ERROR [patzilla.navigator.export ][MainThread] Rendering dossier to PDF failed. Exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2605' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 224, in to_zip
zipfile.writestr('report/@dossier.pdf', DossierXlsx(self.data).to_pdf(payload=workbook_payload))
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 690, in to_pdf
payload = self.create()
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 499, in create
self.write_numberlist_sheets()
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 590, in write_numberlist_sheets
df.to_excel(self.writer, sheet_name=sheet_name, index=False)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 1425, in to_excel
startrow=startrow, startcol=startcol)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/excel.py", line 1487, in write_cells
val, style)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlsxwriter/worksheet.py", line 64, in cell_wrapper
return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xlsxwriter/worksheet.py", line 400, in write
return self.write_url(row, col, *args)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 771, in <lambda>
worksheet.write_url = lambda *args, **kwargs: write_url_deduce_title(worksheet, *args, **kwargs)
File "/opt/patzilla/sites/patzilla-prod/.venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/patzilla/navigator/export.py", line 765, in write_url_deduce_title
tip = 'Open "{name}" in Patent Navigator'.format(name=string)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2605' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)