Fwd: Re: Error on running convert.ly

[Malte Meyn]

forgot to CC again ...


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Subject: Re: Error on running convert.ly
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:21:35 +0200
From: Malte Meyn <address@hidden>
To: John McWilliam <address@hidden>

It looks to me as if your input file contains data/text that is not
properly utf8-encoded (sort of “unknown” or “in utf8 undefined”
characters). This seems to be near the beginning of the file (bytes 45
to 47, probably somewhere in the first 5 to 10 lines). Can you show us
your input file?

On 01.08.2014 09:58, John McWilliam wrote:
> This error has suddenly appeared after many successful runs:
>
> convert-ly.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.18.2
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\convert-ly.py", line 409, in
> ?
>      main ()
>    File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\convert-ly.py", line 383, in
> main
>      f = f.decode (sys.stdin.encoding or "utf-8")
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 45-47:
> invalid data
> Processing time: 13 seconds
> >
> Can anyone explain why it has appeared and how to solve the problem.
>
>
>
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