I have a pyramid 1.2 application which processes donations made via
PayPal using a service called PayPal Instant Payment Notification.
Today, we had a donation from an international user with non-ascii
characters in their last name. PayPal makes a post request to our
server with information about the pyramid view that handles these the
request failed when I tried to access the last name from
request.params.get('last_name')
I believe requests are encoded as windows-1252, not UTF-8, which is
causing this error. Unfortunately, I do not have the option of
changing the encoding method on PayPal's end.
File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/mario/mario/views/donate.py",
line 241, in donate_ipn
value = request.params.get(key)
File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line
168, in get
return self[key]
File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/webob/multidict.py",
line 312, in __getitem__
return self._decode_value(self.multi.__getitem__(self._encode_key(key)))
File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/webob/multidict.py",
line 301, in _decode_value
value = value.decode(self.encoding, self.errors)
File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py",
line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1:
invalid continuation byte
So, my question is, how do I tell the the request that the request is
encoded windows-1252 not utf-8, or convert it to utf-8 prior to
accessing the params MultiDict.
Thank you,
Brian
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