UnicodeEncodeError - opening encoded URLs

[Peter Otten]

D4rko wrote:

>> (Unless "name" is a unicode object as well.)
> 
> Unfortunately it is, it's the argument that is automagically handed to
> the handler function by the Django URL dispatcher. I guess I may need
> to encode it back to the pure ascii with the "%xx" things, but I can't
> find the function that would do it. Any idea?

>>> urllib.quote(u"Środkowa".encode("utf8"))
'%C5%9Arodkowa'

Peter