def is_show_uncategorized(self, request):
        """Return the result of the "?show_uncategorized" query string param"""

        show_uncategorized = request.GET.get('show_uncategorized', False)
        if show_uncategorized is True or show_uncategorized == 'true':
            return True
        return False
def decode(value):
    if isinstance(value, bytes):
        value = value.decode(errors="surrogateescape")

    for char in ("\\", "\n", "\t"):
        value = value.replace(
            char.encode(encoding="unicode-escape").decode(), char
        )

    return value