Dear Jeremy Kerr, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > When running this on the U-Boot list I now get sometimes things like > > this: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/home/wd/bin/pwparser", line 241, in <module> > > sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) > > File "/home/wd/bin/pwparser", line 226, in main > > content = sys.stdin.read().decode('utf-8') > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode > > return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xdf in position 478: > > invalid continuation byte > > Sounds like your input isn't valid utf-8? Would an option to select the > encoding help?
I think a number of messages have special characters in iso8859-1 and iso8859-9. A n option would not really help. I'm running into this when auto-updating the status of some patches using a script similat to what you just posted. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it. - P. Medawar _______________________________________________ Patchwork mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/patchwork
