Merge pull request open-plan-tool#267 from open-plan-tool/fix/sig-utf

Fix timeseries parsing error

app/projects/forms.py

@@ -834,7 +834,11 @@ def clean_input_timeseries(self):
         except TypeError as e:
             raise ValidationError(str(e))
         except Exception as ex:
-            raise ValidationError(_("Could not parse a file. Did you upload one?"))
+            raise ValidationError(
+                _(
+                    f"Could not parse a file due to the following error: {ex}. Did you upload a file?"
+                )
+            )
 
     def clean_efficiency_multiple(self):
         data = self.cleaned_data["efficiency_multiple"]

app/projects/helpers.py

@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ def parse_input_timeseries(timeseries_file):
                 pass
 
     else:
-        timeseries_file_str = timeseries_file.read().decode("utf-8")
+        timeseries_file_str = timeseries_file.read().decode("utf-8-sig")
 
         if timeseries_file_str != "":
             if timeseries_file.name.endswith("json"):

app/users/views.py

@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ def signup(request):
             send_email_exchange(to_email=to_email, subject=subject, message=message)
             messages.info(
                 request,
-                _("Please confirm your email address to complete the registration"),
+                _(
+                    "Please confirm your email address to complete the registration  (note that the registration email may land in your spam box, if your email provider does not trust our domain name, we have unfortunately no control on our users' email provider)"
+                ),
             )
             return redirect("home")
     else: