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psychok7
psychok7

Reputation: 5473

Django encoding/decoding issues

so i am using a Django tastypie resource and i am trying to find a generic way to decode any string that may be posted to the resource.

i have for example a Name like this

luiçscoico2#@!&&á

and i want my to be able to identify the type of encoding, and appropriately decode it.

I am trying to fetch the string like this:

print bundle.data.get('first_name')

when i do a json dumps my string first name becomes like

"lui\u00e7scoico2#@!&&\u00e1"

and i get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR... any ideas?

UPDATE: i do get a

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

if i try to decode('utf-8') before doing the json dumps to send to the server

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2474

Answers (1)

Paulo Bu
Paulo Bu

Reputation: 29804

Ok I'm gonna try to give a semi-blind answer here. Your string is already in Unicode, the reason I know this is because of the u'\xe7' which is exactly the ç character.

This means you don't have to encode it. If you need your string in utf-8 then just do:

x.decode('utf-8')

and it will porbably work :)

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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