From 0708942ab85817af41e64f06e7dba9beb6b0ca87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stian Vikan <stian.vikan@basefarm.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:09:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed csv reader to handle special characters

---
 netbox/utilities/forms.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/netbox/utilities/forms.py b/netbox/utilities/forms.py
index 4cbc1028b..c86496829 100644
--- a/netbox/utilities/forms.py
+++ b/netbox/utilities/forms.py
@@ -142,10 +142,15 @@ class CSVDataField(forms.CharField):
         if not self.help_text:
             self.help_text = 'Enter one line per record in CSV format.'
 
+    def utf_8_encoder(self, unicode_csv_data):
+        # convert csv,reader to utf-8e
+        for line in unicode_csv_data:
+            yield line.encode('utf-8')
+
     def to_python(self, value):
         # Return a list of dictionaries, each representing an individual record
         records = []
-        reader = csv.reader(value.splitlines())
+        reader = csv.reader(self.utf_8_encoder(value.splitlines()))
         for i, row in enumerate(reader, start=1):
             if row:
                 if len(row) < len(self.columns):