Encode UTF-8 for Django form

Question

I have a contact form

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(required=True, max_length=100, label=_('firstname'))
    mail = forms.EmailField(required=True, max_length=150, label=_('mail'))

def display(request):
    form = ContactForm(request.POST)
    if form.is_valid(): 
       ...
    else:
       form = ContactForm()  

    return render_to_response('contact.html', {'contact_form' : form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

With from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

In my template contact.html

<form action="#" method="post" >{% csrf_token %}
    {{ contact_form.as_p  }}
    <input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>

I have this error

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xe9' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Unicode error hint

The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: Prénom

The problem is _('firstname')) . But it works when

• I put .encode('utf8') at the end it's solved.
• I use the string without the translation tool
• I use another text like _('other string')
• I add string at the end : _('firstname')+''
• I use the translation in the view : {% trans "firstname" %}

But I don't want to do this in all attributs of my contact form (which contains more attributs).

How can I do that for name and email both ?

Thanks

Answer 1

解决办法是更换gettext_lazy由ugettext_lazy因为字符串Prénom包含一个特殊的Unicode信é

Answer 2

Type on the first line:

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

Python recognises this line as instructions of encoding type for your entire file.

Answer 3

You don't specify whether you use ModelForms or not, but can you check in your template that your browser will correctly encode the submitted data with the content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' attribute in the form tag? Like:

<form action='/someurl' method='post' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'>