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Re: [Straw-devel] Exception when downloading feeds
From: |
Lucas Nussbaum |
Subject: |
Re: [Straw-devel] Exception when downloading feeds |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:15:34 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:03:07PM +0100, Ross Burton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I try and read most feeds (slashdot for example), I get this error
> message from Straw 0.23:
>
> LookupError: unknown encoding: en_US.ISO8859-1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 336, in
> item_selection_changed
> self.display_item(item)
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 363, in display_item
> straw.main.display_item(item)
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 188, in display_item
> straw.main_window.display_item(item)
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 1416, in display_item
> self._item_view.display_item(item)
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 101, in display_item
> html = (
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 145, in htmlify_item
> self._date_format, self._encoding)
> File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/utils.py", line 144, in format_date
> return unicode(timestr, encoding)
Give the version in Juri's tla archive a try. Encoding problems are
fixed in it.
Juri, maybe it would be a good idea to release a new version soon, since
the OPML and encoding problems might discourage people from switching to
straw. (I haven't followed recent changes though, so I don't know how
stable straw currently is).
Lucas