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Asked: 2026-06-04T14:29:54+00:00

I saved a Microsoft Word document as an HTML document. I then copied and

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I saved a Microsoft Word document as an HTML document. I then copied and pasted the generated HTML into a Django template “document.html”.

I then mapped a URL to a simple view that loads this template.

def viewDocument(request):
    return render_to_response('document.html')

Afterwards, I get this error when access the page for that view.

UnicodeDecodeError at /viewDocument/
'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xd2 in position 67600: invalid continuation byte

Strangely, the HTML in document.html displays fine when I open the page generated from Microsoft Word in Google Chrome on my laptop. How come it doesn’t work as a Django template?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Because the file isn’t encoded in UTF-8.

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