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UnicodeDecodeError in Django

i am having this issue: even if i added # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on the top of my views.py, i am getting UnicodeDecodeError. how can i handle those german umlauts ü,ö,ä in my views? i am trying to send emails with german umlauts in its content.

please help me with this issue. i want that german umlauts are shown correctly in its original form. i can write ä like ae, but this is what i want to avoid.

i googled a lot, but couldnot find anything that helped me

ERROR:
UnicodeDecodeError at /location-save/ ('ascii', ' kannst Du \n diese Location einsehen. M\xc3\xb6glichkeiten zur Bearbeitung der Locations werden bald zur Verfuegung stehen. \n\n Herzliche Gruesse, \n Dein LocateYourDate Team', 55, 56, 'ordinal not in range(128)')

The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: en. M��glic

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thanks, please see my error message update in the question. what should i do now?

doniyor
– doniyor

2013年04月01日 05:09:55 +00:00
Commented Apr 1, 2013 at 5:09
@doniyor: Well, you need to understand how Unicode works in Python, to be honest. So you need to read the documentation and maybe some helpful blogposts. Start with these two: regebro.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/… farmdev.com/talks/unicode

Lennart Regebro
– Lennart Regebro

2013年04月01日 05:13:03 +00:00
Commented Apr 1, 2013 at 5:13
very nice. great help. honestly, i am very lazy to read about encodings :(

doniyor
– doniyor

2013年04月01日 05:18:36 +00:00
Commented Apr 1, 2013 at 5:18

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