Django tutorial part 4: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 22431

[SNATCHGIRL1]

Hi everyone, 

I am a Django newbie and started the Tutorial. I followed all steps so far but I am stuck at the part 4. 

So far I've written 3 templates. 

1. file:///C:/Python27/Django/mysite/polls/templates/polls/detail.html

<h1>{{ question.question_text }}</h1>

 

{% if error_message %}<p><strong>{{ error_message }}</strong></p>{% endif %}

 

<form action="{% url 'polls:vote' question.id %}" method="post">

{% csrf_token %}

{% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}

    <input type="radio" name="choice" id="choice{{ forloop.counter }}" value="{{ choice.id }}" />

    <label for="choice{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ choice.choice_text }}</label><br />

{% endfor %}

<input type="submit" value="Vote" />

<

/form>

2. file:///C:/Python27/Django/mysite/polls/templates/polls/index.html

{% if latest_question_list %}

    <ul>

    {% for question in latest_question_list %}

        <li><a href="{% url 'polls:detail' question.id %}">{{ question.question_text }}</a></li>

    {% endfor %}

    </ul>

{% else %}

    <p>No polls are available.</p>

{% endif %}

 3. file:///C:/Python27/Django/mysite/polls/templates/polls/results.html

<h1>{{ question.question_text }}</h1>

 

<ul>

{% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}

    <li>{{ choice.choice_text }} -- {{ choice.votes }} vote{{ choice.votes|pluralize }}</li>

{% endfor %}

</ul>

 

<a href="{% url 'polls:detail' question.id %}">Vote again?</a>

just like explained in the tutorial. 

When I wan to run it on the server I get the error: 

UnicodeDecodeError at /polls/1/

'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 22431: invalid start byte

Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls/1/
Django Version:	1.11.3
Exception Type:	UnicodeDecodeError
Exception Value:	'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 22431: invalid start byte
Exception Location:	C:\Python27\lib\codecs.py in decode, line 314
Python Executable:	C:\Python27\python.exe
Python Version:	2.7.13
Python Path:	['C:\\Python27\\Django\\mysite', 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python27.zip', 'C:\\Python27\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python27\\lib', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python27', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages']
Server time:	Tue, 1 Aug 2017 16:03:11 +1000

Unicode error hint

The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: yes'>��� </

I see the same when I encode my html files with utf-8 in word. 

Unfortunately I don't know how to fix this. I've read many threats but none of them really helped me to solve this issue.

Has anyone experienced a similar problem and can help me? 

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi.

You need to make sure that file is really encoded as utf8 and contains valid unicode characters.

Some editors, specially in windows tend to do lot of black magic to display characters correctly.

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[SNATCHGIRL1]

Hi Jani, 

thank you for the response. It was really helpful. Instead of using word I edited the html files with Notepad. Now it's working :)

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi,

I really suggest you to use real editor or even IDE.

For editor I've been using VS Code.

For IDE PyCharm is pretty nice.

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