Problem importing layers into river databses table

Question

When importing data from other spatial layers appear a phyton code error, that says:

"UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/carhuich/.qgis2/python/plugins\rivergis\dlg_rasImportDataIntoRasTables.py", line 298, in acceptDialog
    self.processLayers(key, data)
  File "C:/Users/carhuich/.qgis2/python/plugins\rivergis\dlg_rasImportDataIntoRasTables.py", line 282, in processLayers
    selected=self.onlySel)
  File "C:/Users/carhuich/.qgis2/python/plugins\rivergis\river_database.py", line 448, in insert_layer
    qry = self.layer_to_pgsql(features, imp_attrs, hecobject, SCHEMA, SRID)
  File "C:/Users/carhuich/.qgis2/python/plugins\rivergis\river_database.py", line 397, in layer_to_pgsql
    vals.append('\'{0}\'::{1}'.format(val, attr[2]))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)"

What does it mean?

Best regards,

Carolina.

Answer 1

It means, one of your layers' filename contains a non-ASCII character (like łąśćź). Please, change the layer name(s) and try to import them once again.

Regards

Answer 2

This kind of errors (UnicodeEncodeError) are caused by using layers which names contains non-ASCII characters (propably letters with diacritical marks). Ensure all layers you are working on (and folders where they are placed) have valid names without this kind of characters. Also try to avoid spaces in layers and folders names.