[Answered ]-Serving django application via apache and development server results different character encoding

Actually it’s worth to check the result of the sys.getfilesystemencoding() .

On apache2 it results ascii to me, on dev server it results utf-8 .

So, to solve the problem, You need to add something like that to /etc/apache2/envvars:

export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'

. That should do the trick on debian.

Link to similar problem:

https://groups.google.com/g/modwsgi/c/MRsMc9yehBI?pli=1

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