I have the following code in the view call..

def view(request):body = u""  for filename, f in request.FILES.items():body = body + 'Filename: ' + filename + '\n' + f.read() + '\n'

On some cases I get

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 7470: ordinal not in range(128)

What am I doing wrong? (I am using Django 1.1.)

Thank you.

Django has some utilities that handle this (smart_unicode, force_unicode, smart_str). Generally you just need smart_unicode.

from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
def view(request):body = u""  for filename, f in request.FILES.items():body = body + 'Filename: ' + filename + '\n' + smart_unicode(f.read()) + '\n'