Managing Non-English Characters: From HTML Input via JavaScript to Python 2.7

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Non-English characters misinterpret from an HTML textarea using AJAX in JavaScript to a Python 2.7 server. Tried various UTF decodings; sample:

def process_text(input_val):
    return input_val.decode('utf8')

print(process_text(raw_data))

Help?

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I recently encountered a similar issue where non-English characters were garbled when transferring data from a client-side form to a Python 2.7 backend. In my case, making sure that my AJAX call explicitly specified the content type with a charset was key. The problem was that the server was interpreting the raw data with a different default encoding. I adjusted my request headers and then confirmed that every input string was properly decoded using ‘utf8’. This approach resolved the misinterpretation issues I was facing.