Bootle Python Web Framework sending post request with Russian letters from the form ?

Question

Python

Tell me, I'm passing data (Russian letters) from the post form to the script, the encoding of the file with the utf-8 form.
piece of code:

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@post('/new')
def addtask():
   who = request.forms.get('who')
   print(who)
   return str(who)

It must be - Smirnova, and the print outputs to the console -

СмиÑнова

and return str(who) is the same.
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Answer 1

Faced the same problem, solved with getunicode
who = request.forms.getunicode('who')