Django, Tomcat & Encoding

I spent some amount of time this morning dealing with minor encoding irritations in both Django and Tomcat. First Django was not liking my name as a search term (nothing personal, my first name, François, contains a ‘c’ with a cedilla, which soften the ‘c’). Turned out that the Python method urllib.quote_plus() was croaking rather badly and needed to be replaced with the more friendly django.utils.http.urlquote_plus(). You could also use urllib.urlencode(). I just wasn’t using urllib for anythin