Google App Engine: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 48: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m working on a small application using Google App Engine which makes use of the Quora RSS feed. There is a form, and based on the input entered by the user, it will outpu

Answer 1

Python is likely trying to decode a unicode string into a normal str with the ascii codec and is failing. When you're working with unicode data you need to decode it:

content = content.decode('utf-8')

Answer 2

In my AppEngine app, I convert it like:

content = unicode(content)

I think it more clear and easy to use.