You have to URL unquote not request.vars.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16566069/url-decode-utf-8-in-python
If you do request.vars.yourvarname what do you have? You can try request.vars.yourvarname.decode('utf-8') Richard On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:24 PM, António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to insist but cant find any clue. > I tried a simple http post from fiddler or postman > > i sent a Post to my controller with > Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 > and in the body > {"Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade":1,"b":2} > > and i get in request.vars > {u'Sistema de Gest\xe3o\x00 \x00d\x00a\x00 \x00Q\x00u\x00': 1, 'b': 2} > > How do i get "Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade" from the request.vars? > > Regards > António > > > > 2016-08-18 19:49 GMT+01:00 Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com>: > >> I think it url encoded... Search google about it, it should be obvious >> then... >> >> Richard >> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:12 PM, António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Im getting this data on request.vars from Google forms onsubmit event. >>> >>> u'Sistema de Gest\xe3o\x00 \x00d\x00a\x00 \x00Q\x00u\x00' >>> >>> how do i convert it to >>> "Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade" >>> >>> i tried urllib.unquote(x).decode('utf-8') in my controller >>> def getit(): >>> ret={} >>> for x in request.vars: >>> temp=urllib.unquote(x).decode("utf-8") >>> ret[x]=request.vars[x]; >>> db.responses.insert(allresponses=ret) >>> but my responses.allreponses document is saved as the same value >>> {u'Sistema de Gest\xe3o\x00 \x00d\x00a\x00 \x00Q\x00u\x00': 'testing'} >>> Allresponses field is a JSON Field >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> António >>> >>> -- >>> Resources: >>> - http://web2py.com >>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.