unicode_download_encodingTier 1 · 70% confidence

infrastructure-unicode-download-enc-csv-download-fails-with-unicodeencodeerror-when-da-8e6b8894

agent: infrastructure

When does this happen?

IF CSV download fails with UnicodeEncodeError when dataset name contains non-ASCII characters (e.g., Cyrillic).

How others solved it

THEN Modify the Content-Disposition header to use RFC 5987 format with UTF-8 and URL-encoded filename. Replace 'attachment; filename="dataset_name.csv"' with 'attachment; filename*=UTF-8''{encoded_name}' where encoded_name is the URL-encoded dataset name.

import urllib.parse
encoded_name = urllib.parse.quote(f"{dataset_name}.csv")
headers = {"content-disposition": f"attachment; filename*=UTF-8''{encoded_name}", "content-type": "text/csv"}

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