id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 28701,QueryDict processes some Unicode symbols incorrectly,fresheed,nobody,"Using Django 1.8 I get strange result feeding QueryDict a string which contains Unicode U+00AB symbol. More concrete, first of two bytes is omitted. Other randomly taken symbols are parsed correctly. {{{ double_angle=""value=%C2%AB"" # « yo=""value=%D1%91"" # ё katakana=""value=%E3%82%A1"" # ァ for qs in (double_angle, yo, katakana): dct=QueryDict(query_string=qs, encoding=None) print(""%s -> %s"" % (qs, dct)) }}} Output: {{{ value=%C2%AB -> value=%D1%91 -> value=%E3%82%A1 -> }}} ",Bug,closed,HTTP handling,1.8,Normal,wontfix,"QueryDict, Unicode",,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0