Question

I have a text-box which allows users to enter a word.

The user enters: über

In the backend, I get the word like this:

def form_process(request):
    word = request.GET.get('the_word')
    word = word.encode('utf-8')
    #word = word.decode('utf-8')
    print word

For some reason, I cannot decode or encode this!!
It gives me the error:

 UnicodeEncodeError
 ('ascii', u'\ufffd', 0, 1, 'ordinal not in range(128)')

Edit: When I do “repr(word)”, this is what I get:

u'\ufffd'

Answer 1

Solved!

I had escape(word) …in the javascript …before I passed it to the server.