Hi! I am stuck with calling URLs with parameters containing non-ASCII characters. I'm creating a url like this.
url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' + urllib.quote(address) + '&sensor=false&language=DE' address can be a string like u"Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen". This results in http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=K%F6ln%2C%20Nordrhein-Westfalen&sensor=false&language=DE and this doesn't seem to meet Google's Encoding expectations. I get an "INVALID REQUEST" response. (The same things works if there are only ASCII characters in the address.) When I manually enter the "Köln"... string in the Firefox address bar, Firefox makes the URL http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=K%C3%B6ln,%20Nordrhein-Westfalen&sensor=false&language=DE out of this and it works fine. %C3%B6 seems to be the url-encoded representation of an UTF-8 representation of a "ö" character. So the next thing I tried is to get address utf-8-encoded, like this: url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' + urllib.quote(address.encode('utf-8')) + '&sensor=false&language=DE' This gives me an error like UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) Again, the input string for address is u"Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen". Can you see what I'm doing wrong or what I would have to to to get from u"ö" to "%C3%B6"? Thanks! Marian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
