Non-ascii characters in the URL result in malformed data

Consider the hello world example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from bottle import route, run
@route('/hello/<name>')
def index(name='World'):
    return '<b>Hello %s!</b>' % name

run(host='localhost', port=8080)

Here, calling the url http://localhost/hello/ŞĞÜ results in:

Hello ŞĞÜ!

Any ideas?

[blastrock]

I had this same bug, it took me a while to understand what was going on. I couldn’t find anywhere in the documentation where this is mentioned, please someone document it and include that encode(“latin1”) trick until you fix it. To fix it and keep backward compatibility, maybe you can put a parameter in bottle.run() to tell that the encoding should be UTF-8 and have this parameter set to latin1 by default.

Btw, coffeeowl’s fix does not work for me.

[coffeeowl]

I guess I have the same problem. I am writing a webapp and unfortunately some URLs might contain non-latin characters. As a result I get a garbage instead of normal URL parameters and can query a DB with them. I am not sure what are the consequences of my hack, but it was easy to fix, I have changed the encoding to utf-8 on this line - https://github.com/defnull/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py#L82 And yes, I am using Python3.