thanks for the quick replys guys, you were right. a .encode('utf-8') helps.
actually the json.dumps part in the code is wrong. it has to be: somepage = yield treq.post(target_url, body.encode('utf-8'), headers=headers, cookies=cookies ) Am Samstag, den 07.01.2017, 12:00 +0000 schrieb Cory Benfield: > > On 7 Jan 2017, at 02:18, Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net > > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 at 03:23 Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.co > > m> wrote: > > > > Maybe we should support unicode for the body as well. We can set > > the charset in the mime-type and everything so that it will be > > properly intelligible by the server, which doesn't happen if the > > user manually encodes like this. > > > > Oh, forgot to comment on this point; in the specific case of JSON, > > it isn't necessary to specify UTF-8 in Content-Type[1], but for > > HTML or XML it's a pretty good idea. However, I'm not sure if it's > > possible to modify Content-Type in a generic fashion to make this > > sort of thing work; for example, "Content-Type: application/octet- > > stream; charset=UTF-8" is nonsense. I'll defer to some HTTP experts > > here ;) > > This is really not simple, for the reason that many MIME types do not > define a charset extension. In the case of JSON, it’s not just not > necessary to specify UTF-8 in Content-Type, but the standard > explicitly does not define charset for the JSON content type[0]: > > > Note: No "charset" parameter is defined for this registration. > > Adding one really has no effect on compliant recipients. > > Strictly a completely compliant implementation would not emit charset > details for content types that have no charset registration. Such a > thing is pretty tricky to do. Knowing that, it’s probably best to > YOLO your way though, or forbid unicode in bodies. > > Cory > > [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-11 > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python