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This is a django project.

I have a simple view with 1 line in it : render_to_response('index.html'). And this index.html contains characters like "öüä" which trigger the error 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1942-1944: invalid data .

This is straightforward error which kind of says that it can't decode because this is not utf8 , yet i can't understand how to fix it . Where exactly should i specify something .

Any suggestions ?

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index.html is most likely in a non-UTF-8 encoding, possibly ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252. A hex editor is a good thing to use in these cases to examine how the ö et.c. are stored.

If index.html where in UTF-8, an ö would correspond to two bytes, c3 b6. If it is ISO-8859-1, it will be a single byte f6.

To solve this, either recode the file in UTF-8 or choose the right codec.

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Thanks. You were right , my IDE had other encoding by default. Don't know why i didn't think of it =). After i changed it in IDE everything worked fine.

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