Problems with CherryPy url-encoding

Question

im trying to get german umlaute in my url variables. This is my code:

class Root:
    def echo(self,input):
        return input
    echo.exposed = True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cherrypy.quickstart(Root(),'/')

This works fine:

http://localhost:8080/echo/?input=äöüß

Result: äöüß

But when i try:

http://localhost:8080/echo/äöüß

I get: äöüÃ

Does anyone know the reason and how i can fix this?

Answer 1

Try this:

import cherrypy

class Root:
    def echo(self,input):
        return bytes(input, 'Latin-1')
    echo.exposed = True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cherrypy.quickstart(Root(),'/')

or do this:

class Root:
    @tools.encode(encoding='Latin-1')
    def echo(self,input):

Cherrypy is by default encoded utf-8. Hope this helps!