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

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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? 



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