Displaying non-american characters on Postman

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Hello everyone,

I have an issue when I want to display non-american characters such as “é” on postman. When I compile the code that has to display these types of characters on my console, it works, but when I use this code as an api in Postman, the response displays “\u00e9” instead of “é”.

I tried to change the Content-Type to application/json;charset=utf-8 , but nothing changed.

Thanks for your help !

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When I send that using Postman Echo, it goes through fine.

But I can see in the URL in the console log that its automatically encoding it.

So what is actually sent is the following.

https://postman-echo.com/get?test=%C3%A9

Which is the same principle as the following.

let string = "é";

console.log(string); // "é"

const encoded = encodeURI(string); 

console.log(encoded); // "%C3%A9"
console.log(decodeURI(encoded)); // "é"

You might need to send the encoded value instead.

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Hi, I’m coming back to you,

The problem was just that, in order to print the result on postman, I used the json.dumps() method but if I don’t put ensure_ascii=False then it doesn’t convert non-american characters. I add this and now it works well.