Error with Tagesanzeiger News

Paede · 11-13-2010, 01:11 PM

Hi, I tried to fetch the news of the "Tagesanzeiger" (from Switzerland, in German) with the built-in recipe but after about 7 minutes an error window is displayed with the following message:

"Failed: Fetch news from Tagesanzeiger"

At the end of the "Detail-Output" I can see the following error:

"ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes"

Then I tried to open the built-in recipe in calibre but then a large error message is displayed and I can not open the recipe:

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>DatabaseException</b>:You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings. RemoteTraceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\library\sqlite.py", line 175, in run ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.

Does anyone knows how to fix that problem ? I use calibre 0.7.28.

Thanks a lot for your help !

marbs · 11-13-2010, 01:40 PM

it sounds like the site broke its own links. wait a day or two (i think)

kovidgoyal · 11-13-2010, 02:00 PM

the error you get when trying to customize the builting recipe is a bug, fixed in next release. You could probably work around it by using load recipe from file and opening the recipe file from the calibre installation directory in the resources/recipes subdirectory.

Paede · 11-15-2010, 11:12 AM

Hi again,

I Checked the built-in recipe of Tagesanzeiger and opened the recipe file from the calibre installation directory in the resources/recipes subdirectory like kovidgoyal suggested in his post (Thanks for the help kovidgoyal !). I changed a lot until I found the error in the recipe. The following line has to be changed so that there are no special characterts in it:

category = 'News, Politik, Nachrichten, Schweiz, Zürich'

... has to be changed to ...

category = 'News, Politik, Nachrichten, Schweiz, Zuerich'

The character "ü" caused the whole problem, now it's working ! Maybe that can be fixed in a new release.

Thanks to all people for their help and have a nice day !

kovidgoyal · 11-15-2010, 11:25 AM

done.

11-13-2010, 01:11 PM	#1
Paede Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Sony PRS-650	Error with Tagesanzeiger News Hi, I tried to fetch the news of the "Tagesanzeiger" (from Switzerland, in German) with the built-in recipe but after about 7 minutes an error window is displayed with the following message: "Failed: Fetch news from Tagesanzeiger" At the end of the "Detail-Output" I can see the following error: "ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes" Then I tried to open the built-in recipe in calibre but then a large error message is displayed and I can not open the recipe: ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>DatabaseException</b>:You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings. RemoteTraceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\library\sqlite.py", line 175, in run ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings. Does anyone knows how to fix that problem ? I use calibre 0.7.28. Thanks a lot for your help !

11-15-2010, 11:12 AM	#4
Paede Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Sony PRS-650	Tagesanzeiger recipe OK Now Hi again, I Checked the built-in recipe of Tagesanzeiger and opened the recipe file from the calibre installation directory in the resources/recipes subdirectory like kovidgoyal suggested in his post (Thanks for the help kovidgoyal !). I changed a lot until I found the error in the recipe. The following line has to be changed so that there are no special characterts in it: category = 'News, Politik, Nachrichten, Schweiz, Zürich' ... has to be changed to ... category = 'News, Politik, Nachrichten, Schweiz, Zuerich' The character "ü" caused the whole problem, now it's working ! Maybe that can be fixed in a new release. Thanks to all people for their help and have a nice day !

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11-13-2010, 01:40 PM	#2
marbs Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: nook	it sounds like the site broke its own links. wait a day or two (i think)

11-13-2010, 02:00 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,198 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	the error you get when trying to customize the builting recipe is a bug, fixed in next release. You could probably work around it by using load recipe from file and opening the recipe file from the calibre installation directory in the resources/recipes subdirectory.

11-15-2010, 11:25 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,198 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	done.

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