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copied!<p>I'm trying to write somethings with special characters in Django HTML templates like "é" or "ê", but it's is not working. And Django returns this error message:</p> <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError at / 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in position 248: invalid start byte </code></pre> <p>This is the entire traceback: Environment:</p> <pre><code>Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Django Version: 1.6.1 Python Version: 2.7.5 Installed Applications: ('django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'survey', 'south', 'django_reset', 'chartkick', 'registration') Installed Middleware: ('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware') Traceback: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 114. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/Users/filipeferminiano/Documents/django/panorama/survey/views.py" in home 35. return render(request, 'home.html') File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/shortcuts/__init__.py" in render 53. return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py" in render_to_string 162. t = get_template(template_name) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py" in get_template 138. template, origin = find_template(template_name) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py" in find_template 127. source, display_name = loader(name, dirs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py" in __call__ 43. return self.load_template(template_name, template_dirs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py" in load_template 46. source, display_name = self.load_template_source(template_name, template_dirs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loaders/filesystem.py" in load_template_source 38. return (fp.read().decode(settings.FILE_CHARSET), filepath) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py" in decode 16. return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) Exception Type: UnicodeDecodeError at / Exception Value: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x87 in position 230: invalid start byte </code></pre> <p>The view that renders the template:</p> <pre><code>def home(request): if request.user.is_authenticated(): browser_stats = [['Chrome', 52.9], ['Firefox', 27.7], ['Opera', 1.6], ['Internet Explorer', 12.6], ['Safari', 4]] return HttpResponseRedirect('/profile/') else: return render(request, 'home.html') </code></pre> <p>The url of the template:</p> <pre><code>url(r'^$', 'survey.views.home', name='home'), </code></pre>

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