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‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte (problem when using django)

From a Chrome extension, I try to send a POST request:

var = encodeURIComponent(somevariable);

var parameters = "var=" + var;
mypostrequest.open("POST", "django/page/", true);
mypostrequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
mypostrequest.send(parameters);

and when in somevariable, there are some UTF-chars, it breaks with

‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc4 in position 14: ordinal not in
range(128)

In Django I have:

some_var = form.cleaned_data['var'].replace('\n','')

The result is wrong because the some_var contains wrong chars:

some_var = u"blah blah blah z\u0142o\u017a"

Of course, it should be u"blah blah blah złoź", but I really don’t know where and how I should change the encoding.

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Update after closure:

This question isn’t duplicate – the problem isn’t in the message. I googled more than you think you can.

The most important thing (which I don’t understand) is the difference between

u”ł” and u”\u0142″ and “\u0142”

all of those means almost the same, but not the same.

Answer 1

Should you be complaining about Unicode if you don’t actually use it?

some_var = form.cleaned_data['var'].replace(u'\n', u'')