Update notes for 2017-02-20

content/post/2017-02.md

@@ -175,3 +175,16 @@ dspace=# update metadatavalue set text_value = regexp_replace(text_value, 'http:
 - Fix label of CCAFS subjects in Atmire Listings and Reports module
 - Help Sisay with SQL commands
 - Help Paola from CCAFS with the Atmire Listings and Reports module
+- Testing the `fix-metadata-values.py` script on macOS and it seems like we don't need to use `.encode('utf-8')` anymore when printing strings to the screen
+- It seems this might have only been a temporary problem, as both Python 3.5.2 and 3.6.0 are able to print the problematic string "Entwicklung & Ländlicher Raum" without the `encode()` call, but print it as a bytes when it *is* used:
+
+```
+$ python
+Python 3.6.0 (default, Dec 25 2016, 17:30:53)
+>>> print('Entwicklung & Ländlicher Raum')
+Entwicklung & Ländlicher Raum
+>>> print('Entwicklung & Ländlicher Raum'.encode())
+b'Entwicklung & L\xc3\xa4ndlicher Raum'
+```
+
+- So for now I will remove the encode call from the script (though it was never used on the versions on the Linux hosts), leading me to believe it really *was* a temporary problem, perhaps due to macOS or the Python build I was using.