I’m fairly new to django and was trying to send an email containing Persian letters using django.core.mail.EmailMessage . here is my code:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.conf import settings


def custom_sender(subject: str, body: str, recipient_list: list[str], attachments: list[str] = (), content_type_html: bool = False):
    try:
        email = EmailMessage(
            subject,
            body,
            settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
            recipient_list,
        )

        if content_type_html:
            email.content_subtype = "html"

        for attachment in attachments:
            email.attach_file(attachment)

        email.send()

    except Exception as e:
        print(f'nnFailed to send email: {e}nn')

and this is how I tried to use it in my view :

custom_sender(subject='ایمیل تستی',
              body='این یک ایمیل تستی است.',
              recipient_list=[user.email])

but I encounter this error :

'charmap' codec can't encode character 'u06cc' in position 1: character maps to <undefined>

I have noticed that I can’t even print Persian stuff out in the console in my django project and I keep encountering this same error (this doesn’t happen outside of my django project, and I CAN print Persian letters out in the console). can someone please tell me what this error is about and how I can fix it?

I asked some AIs and tried a bunch of solutions like encoding the subject and body using .encode('utf-8') and using django’s smart_str , or using python’s unicode strings like

u'این یک پیام تستی است'

I even tried messing around with django’s setting.py like trying to change the DEFAULT_CHARSET (although it already is set to 'utf-8' by default) or changing the default language to Persian to see if it helps, but none of those work and the error remains.