Getting unicode string from URL

Dear folks

I am working on an rest API. Here some objects with weird letters in them are requested by the client using percent escaping (This is beyond by control).
So a request for:
http://example.com/auth/groups/KØVS/

Is requested like so:
http://example.com/auth/groups/K%2BVS/

When i get this value in my Django view i need it as a regular or Unicode string but i cannot seem to figure out how.

Niether:
urllib.unquote_plus(variable)
Nor:
urllib.unquote_plus(variable).encode('UTF8')

...reassembles the original string... what am i missing?

Best wishes
Morten Pedersen
Denmark

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