Using request.GET and having issues

I have the following view set up:

def concord(request):
searchterm = request.GET['q']
... more stuff ...
return render_to_response('concord.html', locals())

With URL "http://mysite.com/concord/?q=برشه", and template code
<p>Your search for {{ searchterm }} returned {{ results }}
results in {{ texts.count }} texts.</p>
I get this result on the page:
Your search for برشه returned 0 results in 8 texts.

The search term (برشه) is being passed successfully, but there should
be 13 results, not zero. When I hard-code "searchterm = 'برشه' " into
the concord view, instead of "searchterm = request.GET['q']", the page
displays perfectly.

The full code for the view is below... What am I missing here?

~Karen

def concord(request):
searchterm = request.GET['q']

#== Retrieving relevant corpus texts from database ===
texts = Text.objects.filter(content__contains=searchterm)
content = ""
for t in texts:
content += t.content + "\n"

#== Encoding ===
content_uni = content.encode('utf-8')
tokens = content_uni.split()

#== Concordancing with NLTK ===
text = nltk.Text(tokens)
ci = nltk.text.ConcordanceIndex(text.tokens)
offsets = ci.offsets(searchterm)
results = len(offsets)
tokens = ci.tokens()

#== Set variables to return to webpage ===
context = []
for offset in offsets:
before = ' '.join(tokens[offset-10:offset])
word = tokens[offset]
after = ' '.join(tokens[offset+1:offset+10])
context.append([before, word, after])
return render_to_response('concord.html', locals())

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.
To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.