Unable to store Japanese text in Qdrant on Windows environment

[panda666x]

While I can successfully store and retrieve English and other Latin-based characters, I encounter timeout errors when trying to store Japanese text. After investigating the issue, it appears that character encoding problems are causing the program to hang.

[panda666x]

The issue can be resolved by configuring the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable in the MCP server settings.

{
  "qdrant": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-server-qdrant", 
      "--qdrant-url", 
      "http://localhost:6333",
      "--qdrant-api-key", 
      "your_api_key",
      "--collection-name",
      "your_collection_name"
    ],
    "env": {
        "PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8" 
    }
  }
}

[kacperlukawski]

@panda666x Thanks for providing the answer! Could you please describe your env? At least the OS would be helpful. I'd love to reproduce it!

[panda666x]

OS is Windows 11. Also, this might be a Japan-specific issue. In Japan, the default character encoding of the OS appears to be Shift-JIS.