How to receive variables in a post in google app engine that contains string with chars like: õ á?

Question

email = self.request.get(\'email\')
name = self.request.get(\'name\')
mail.send_mail(sender=\"myemail\", email=email, body=name, subject=\"sss \" + name + \"sdafsaã\         


        

Answer 1

You should use:

email = self.request.get('email')
name = self.request.get('name')
mail.send_mail(sender="myemail", 
               email=email, 
               body=name, 
               subject="hello " + name.encode('utf-8') + " user!")

The variable name is a unicode string and should encoded in utf-8 or in the kind of encode you are using in you web application before concatenating to other byte strings.
Without name.encode(), Python uses the default 7 bits ascii codec that can't encode that specific character.