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The query string is in ISO-8859-8, but Django's default encoding is UTF-8. You will have to change either DEFAULT_CHARSET or HttpRequest.encoding to ISO-8859-8 to get the correct Unicode data.

Lukáš Lalinský 2009-10-18 17:16:32

Or, if you can, change your application to use the UTF-8 encoding throughout. Webapps that don't support Unicode are so last century.

bobince 2009-10-18 17:42:10

UTF-8 != Unicode.

Daniel Roseman 2009-10-18 17:45:57

True, but ISO-8859-8 doesn't cover whole Unicode, so you can't say you support Unicode is you support only a small subset of it (ISO-8859-8).

Lukáš Lalinský 2009-10-18 17:46:58

Doing the following works:request.encoding = 'ISO-8859-8'x = unicode(request.GET.get("q", None))But how do I support the full range of unicode characters?Doing request.encoding = 'utf-8' does not solve the problem...

Eran Kampf 2009-10-18 17:53:18

To get a full range of Unicode characters you need to change the input to UTF-8 (in this specific case it would be `q=%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%99`). If it's from your website then it shouldn't be a problem, but if it's some external application, you need to change that application.

Lukáš Lalinský 2009-10-18 18:01:51

Thanks. Actually that string is what FireFox generated when I wrote Hebrew on the address bar...

Eran Kampf 2009-10-18 18:06:19

Curious, parameters typed into the address bar should usually be UTF-8. They are for me in Firefox, whether I type Hebrew or Latin-1 characters (ISO-8859-1 is my default charset). Anyhow, it's relatively unusual to be typing full URLs with their query-parameters...

bobince 2009-10-18 20:38:46

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