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How to redirect to a query string URL containing non-ascii characters in DJANGO?

Answer 1

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HttpResponseRedirect(((u'/page/?title=' + query_string).encode('utf-8'))

is the first thing to try (since UTF8 is the only popular encoding that can handle all Unicode characters). That should definitely get rid of the exception you're observing -- the issue then moves to ensuring the handler for /page can properly deal with UTF-8 encoded queries (presumably by decoding them back into Unicode). However, that part is not, strictly speaking, germane to this specific question you're asking!

Alex Martelli 2010-02-05 04:29:15

the chinese character is '\xe4\xbd\xa0' in utf-8... '\xe4', in integer form is "228"... which can't be converted to ascii because its out of range(128). :/ I remember there's a form of representation like 由 or something like that, but I can't find any information on it.There's a post somewhere that makes a passing reference to it: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?103,22136,22199#msg-22199

Eric 2010-02-05 05:07:39

@Eric, when you pass a `str` (an encoded byte string) to `HttpResponseRedirect`, rather than a `unicode` object as you did, there will be no need for Python to try to encode it (with the default `'ascii'` codec) and fail. So the `\xe4` (and other characters of ord >= 128) will not be a problem!

Alex Martelli 2010-02-05 05:24:58

OMG I've found the answer, after so many hours... HttpResponseRedirect(urllib.quote_plus((u'/page/?title=' + query_string).encode('utf-8')))

Eric 2010-02-05 05:31:23

Thanks heaps !!

Eric 2010-02-05 05:37:10

Answer 2

+1 A:

django way:

from django.utils.http import urlquote
HttpResponseRedirect(u'/page/?title=%s' % urlquote(query_string))

slav0nic 2010-02-05 15:09:06

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