How to solve the problem of Cyrillic in url?

Question

Django

Good afternoon!
Installed Django-filter, filter forms work fine, but as soon as you change the display method from forms to AllValuesFilter, everything collapses here is an error:

But if the query string is not empty, but something like www.your-url.com/catalog/printer?printer_type= then it is displayed all OK.
I decided to go to the django-filter sources and changed the line from url = urlencode(data) to url = data, everything seemed to work, but this is not an option, because the url becomes scary :) because data is a json object as I understand it.
Another thing is strange, when there are no parameters in the URL, then for some reason the data parameter is not empty, it contains the following information:

Point me to the right path, maybe something needs to be changed in the PrinterFilter class?

Answer 1

before passing data to the filter, try doing .decode('utf-8') or encode )))