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** [tickets:#8277] UnicodeDecodeErrors with weird url params**
**Status:** in-progress
**Milestone:** unreleased
**Created:** Thu Apr 11, 2019 07:44 PM UTC by Kenton Taylor
**Last Updated:** Thu Apr 11, 2019 07:44 PM UTC
**Owner:** Kenton Taylor
After webob upgrade, malformed utf in the request params will cause errors like
this to throw unhandled:
```
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xba in position 0: invalid
start byte
```
Example: /p/project1/discussion/search/?q=%BB%B4%B
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