Django: Non-ASCII character

Question

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

Answer 1

Do you have this at the beginning of your script:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

...?

See this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

EDIT: For the second problem, it's about the html encoding. Put this in the head of your html page (you should send the request as an html page, otherwise I don't think you will be able to output that character correctly):