have unicode characters in url

Question

for example in this url:

(r'^company/لیست-مقالات/$','CompanyHub.views.docList')

in لیست مقالات part I have unicode characters but I get this error:

Caught UnicodeDecodeError while rendering: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd9 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

You need to put a u in front of r before the string, or wrap it in the unicode method:

See this for more info.

Unicode strings are much like strings, but are specified in the syntax using a preceding 'u' character: u'abc', u"def".

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html