UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 17-22: surrogates not allowed

[johndoee]

UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 17-22: surrogates not allowed

[datawhores]

def keyify(self, size, *names):
    """
    Turns a name and size into a key that can be stored in the database.
    """
    key = '%s|%s' % (size, '|'.join(names))
    logger.debug('Keyify: %s' % key)
    
    return hashlib.sha256(key.encode('utf-8',errors="surrogatepass")).hexdigest()

[samad909]

@excludedBittern8 Could you let us know how you fixed it?

For those who are stuck with this issue here are some ways to get it working,
Python2
Solution from issue #35
Add the following line to the normalize_filename() function before the return statement in db.py,
filename = filename.decode('utf-8')

Python3
A fork of this code patches 3 files, patch your install accordingly or just use that fork - shoghicp@fef9f6a