Unable to decode "devanagari text" passed as URL param

Question

My Python Flask App is unable to decode the devanagari text eg:"सिंगापूर" that I pass as urlparam from my postman. If I sen english text it handles it well.

My PostMan query : GET http://localhost:5000/getSimilarWord/सिंगापूर

from flask import Flask
from flask_restful import Resource, Api

class DevnagriText(Resource):
    def get(self, textInput):
        print("parsed String is :",textInput)
        return {'text': textInput} 

api.add_resource(DevnagriText, '/getWord/<string:textInput>')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

The output I get on console is

{
    "text": "\u00818"
}

Instead of

{
    "text": "सिंगापूर"
}

Answer 1

You need to prevent the response from forcing ASCII: app.config['JSON_AS_ASCII'] = False

So in your example:

from flask import jsonify, Flask
from flask_restful import Resource, Api

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['JSON_AS_ASCII'] = False
api = Api(app)

class DevnagriText(Resource):
    def get(self, textInput):
        print("parsed String is :",textInput)
        return jsonify(text=textInput)

api.add_resource(DevnagriText, '/getWord/<string:textInput>')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

But, this doesn't really matter, it will all get interpreted the same way if it gets read into Python or JavaScript.