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Tom Swift · 06-04-2008, 02:40 AM

I have always had a problem downloading newsfeeds from Calibre and the previous incarnation. I installed the newest version and tried to download the Wired newsfeed. As usual, I get an error message and I have to force quit the program (I am on a Mac). I am wondering if this is because I am in China and the government blocks RSS feeds? Anyway, here is the error message.

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128)
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 707, in news_fetched
File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1056, in conversion_job_exception
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128)

06-04-2008, 02:40 AM	#1
Tom Swift Addict Posts: 250 Karma: 1232346 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Macau Device: Kindle Oasis (plus lots of older devices)	Problems with downloading newsfeeds in Calibre I have always had a problem downloading newsfeeds from Calibre and the previous incarnation. I installed the newest version and tried to download the Wired newsfeed. As usual, I get an error message and I have to force quit the program (I am on a Mac). I am wondering if this is because I am in China and the government blocks RSS feeds? Anyway, here is the error message. 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128) Detailed traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 707, in news_fetched File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1056, in conversion_job_exception UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128)