UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

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Στις 4/7/2013 12:50 μμ, ο/η Ulrich Eckhardt έγραψε:
> Am 04.07.2013 10:37, schrieb Νίκος:
>> I just started to have this error without changing nothing
>
> Well, undo the nothing that you didn't change. ;)
>
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0:
>> invalid start byte
>> [Thu Jul 04 11:35:14 2013] [error] [client 108.162.229.97] Premature end
>> of script headers: metrites.py
>>
>> Why cant it decode the starting byte? what starting byte is that?
>
> It's the 0xb6 but it's expecting the starting byte of a UTF-8 sequence.
> Please do some research on UTF-8, that should clear it up. You could
> also search for common causes of that error.

So you are also suggesting that what gesthostbyaddr() returns is not 
utf-8 encoded too?

What character is 0xb6 anyways?

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