My Django View/Template is not able to handle special characters. The simple view below fails because of the ñ. I get below error:
Non-ASCII character '\xf1' in file"
def test(request):
return HttpResponse('español')
Is there some general setting that I need to set? It would be weird if I had to handle all strings separately: non-American letters are pretty common!
EDIT This is in response to the comments below. It still fails :(
I added the coding comment to my view and the meta info to my html, as suggested by Gabi.
Now my example above doesn't give an error, but the ñ is displayed incorrectly.
I tried return render_to_response('tube/mysite.html', {"s": 'español'}). No error, but it doesn't dislay (it does if s = hello). The other information on the html page displays fine.
I tried hardcoding 'español' into my HTML and that fails:
UnicodeDecodeError 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf.
I tried with the u in front of the string:
SyntaxError (unicode error) 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1
Does this help at all??