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

You need the coding comment Gabi mentioned and also use the unicode "u" sign before your string :

return HttpResponse(u'español')

The best page I found on the web explaining all the ASCII/Unicode mess is this one : http://www.stereoplex.com/blog/python-unicode-and-unicodedecodeerror

Enjoy!