UnicodeDecodeError issue

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Aug 31 02:53:33 EDT 2013


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ferrous Cranus <nikos at superhost.gr> wrote:
> Suddenly my webiste superhost.gr running my main python script presents me
> with this error:
>
> Code:
> UnicodeDecodeError('utf-8', b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef
> \xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2', 0, 1,
> 'invalid start byte')
>
>
> Does anyone know what this means?

Yes. It means that 0xB6 is an invalid start byte in UTF-8. If that
seems unhelpful, it's because your question was; there is not enough
information for us to be able to give any further information.

ChrisA



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