How can I solve UnicodeDecodeError in Django?

Question

I am getting this error in Django:

 UnicodeDecodeError at /category/list/

 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf5 in position 7: invalid start byte

 Request Method:    GET
 Request URL: ...
 Django Version:    1.3.1
 Exception Type:    UnicodeDecodeError
 Exception Value:   

 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf5 in position 7: invalid start byte

 Exception Location:                       /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py in iterencode, line 264
 ...

I should save Turkish characters in the database. How can I fix this error?

Jim Garrison · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-17 01:35:14Z

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A start-byte of 0xf5 would indicate the start of a 4-character UTF-8 encoding. One strong possibility is that the input isn't UTF-8 at all but ISO-8859-9, the Turkish ISO encoding. On that codepage 0xf5 is a lowercase o with tilde or õ.

answered Mar 17, 2012 at 1:35

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Burak Over a year ago

Yes it is an ö. So I should be careful on saving the strings, or getting the strings from the DB? Also I am using django-trans for translations. Can it be the problem?

Burak · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-17 13:28:10Z

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Below code solved my problem. Thank you.

if isinstance(encObject, unicode):
                           myStr = encObject.encode('utf-8')

answered Mar 17, 2012 at 13:28

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Joran Beasley · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-17 02:50:27Z

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http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f5/index.htm

it is an o with a tilde

try

some_string.decode('latin1','replace')

answered Mar 17, 2012 at 2:50

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