'ascii' codec can't encode character

[sah1376]

When I add a link, when I try ro read the page it returns an error

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2026' in position 8422: ordinal not in range(128)

Full error log here

Using the Chrome-HTML option works fine.

I've had a search, but cant find anything relating, so any suggestions welcome!

[kanishka-linux]

It seems default HTTP client failed to recognize character encoding scheme.
If possible, can you provide the link to the webpage?

[sah1376]

This has happened on sites I have tried so far except 1 or 2.

This is one that produces the error:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38882721/python3-unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-xfc

This page works fine:

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/07/install-python-3-6-1-in-ubuntu-16-04-lts/

but this doesn't:

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/

[kanishka-linux]

Thanks for links.

All the above links are working fine on my setup.

Can you mention distro and python version? Are you using git master branch or v0.2.1 release? I'm not able to access the log. Lot of things have been fixed in master branch since last release.

For better experience, you can consider ubuntu 18.04 LTS or anything based on it and then in settings.py file modify VINANTI_BACKEND = ' urllib' to VINANTI_BACKEND = 'aiohttp'.

If you're comfortable with docker, then it will take care of most of the things including settings.

[sah1376]

Ubuntu 16.04 lxc container, python 3.6.7, git master branch.

Here's a fresh log link

I'll try 18.04 and those settings. Docker is not really an option unfortunately as I'm using containers in proxmox.

Thanks for your help!

[zoenglinghou]

I had the same issue. I am running python 3.8.1 on Arch Linux. The archiving does not work for the webpages on Matters.

example

If I have to guess, it is the cjk characters messing up with codecs? I have zero knowledge with that tho.

Thanks again for your help.

[kanishka-linux]

I was thinking may be it was due to some mismatch between python version and associated dependencies on some linux distros. But still not sure about exact cause, since it is difficult to reproduce the bug.

[kanishka-linux]

I've also tested the link posted by you. It is working fine on my setup.