Ok got it. If i create a new record via admin with {"Gestão":1} in the json Field, after saving the new record i get it as
{u'Gs\xe3\x00cn': 1} You said its utf-8 encoded How do i decode it again to "Gestão" ? u'Gs\xe3\x00cn'.decode('utf-8') does not work.. sorry and thank you for your time. António 2016-08-19 15:16 GMT+01:00 Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com>: > why don't you just pass request.vars without quoting and unquoting ???? > anyway, json is always utf-8 encoded. that's the difference you're seeing. > > > On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 11:43:55 AM UTC+2, Ramos wrote: >> >> Hi,im starting a new post because i found that JSON fields change data as >> they are saved. >> So repeating again the problem posted before >> >> >> My model >> db.define_table('responses', >> Field('f1'), >> Field('allresponses','json')) >> >> My controller >> def getit(): >> ret={} >> for x in request.vars: >> db.responses.insert(f1=urllib.unquote(x)) >> ret[urllib.unquote(x)]=request.vars[x]; >> db.responses.insert(allresponses=ret) >> >> i get in my request.vars >> >> {'Timestamp': '8/19/2016 9:54:44', >> 'Sistema%20de%20Gest%C3%A3o%20de%20Qualidade': >> 'sss'} >> >> after executing the controller code,when i look at table responses i >> see in allresponses field >> {'Timestamp': 8/19/2016 9:54:44', u'Sistema de Gest\xe3o\x00 >> \x00d\x00e\x00 \x00Q\x00u\x00': 'sss'} >> >> but field f1 is correct >> "Sistema de Gestão de Qualidade" >> >> So how can i deal with this? >> This is just a test but i will get many keys in request vars and so a >> json field would be better but need to solve this issue. >> >> 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.