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?

Answer 1

Below code solved my problem. Thank you.

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