Location Search does not work with umlauts

[ikzte]

Expected Behavior

Search and find addresses with umlauts like "Saarbrücken"

Actual Behavior

While Searchrequests without Umlauts are working, for Saarbrücken an error is shown:

Internal Server Error: /proxy/

UnicodeEncodeError at /proxy/
'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 45-46: ordinal not in range(128)

Specifications

GeoNode version: 2.10.1 (at master.demo)

[ghost]

it seems the source of issue is within geonode. At least I was able to fix it in geonode.utils.HttpClient.request with the change from

url=urllib.unquote(url).decode('utf8'),

to

url=urllib.unquote(url.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf8'),

I will open an issue on geonode repo for that.