Use latin characters in appengine

Question

How can store latin characters in appengine? (e.g. "peña") when I want to store this I get this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

I can change the Ñ by N, but, there not another and better way?

And if i encode the value, how can print "Peña" again?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:25

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GAE stores strings in unicode. Perhaps encode your string in unicode before saving it.

value = "peña"

value.encode("utf8")

answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:25

Brian M. Hunt

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:09

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From the error ("Unicode Decode Error"), it seems you could have more luck using Unicode - I'd try UTF-8.

answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:09

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