Python UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m trying to write my first app in Google App Engine with Python (link of the app: http://contractpy.appspot.com/ - it\'s just an experimental app). The entire code is bel

Answer 1

Here you got solution.

>>> "t".decode("utf-8")
u't'
>>> "\x81".decode("utf-8")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "encodings/utf_8.py", line 7799, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 0: unexpected code byte

>>> "a\x81b".decode("utf-8", "replace")  # this will decode better and the right way.
u'a\ufffdb'