request.GET should convert %codes into their appropriate characters, the
problem is likely that messages.info is expecting an ascii string, not
unicode.
messages.info(request, unicode(request.GET.get('symbol'),
errors='replace'))
Will replace the degree symbol with a ?, if I remember correctly.
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:50 -0700, Yo-Yo Ma wrote:
> I was trying some things out, and I noticed that it isn't actually
> possible (without using a char-code and converting it) to put
> something like ° (degree symbol) into a "message".
>
> Example:
>
> this code:
> messages.info(request, request
