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

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Am Freitag, 5. Juli 2013 13:27:25 UTC+2 schrieb Νίκος Gr33k:
> Στις 5/7/2013 2:16 μμ, ο/η Lele Gaifax έγραψε:
>> UnicodeDecodeError('utf-8', b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3
>> first string-------^^^^^^^
>> second string---------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Hold on please!
>  From where do these dashes and carets characters come from?

ROTFL!!!!
Nikos, you made my day, again! Fun is back in these threads!

> 
> Also from where do you see 2 strings?

Look, my little dumb baby: The dashes and carets point to the strings.
The first one being 'utf-8', the second one starting with '\xb6\xe3\xed' (being a bytestring, therefore the b before the ')
Sorry, I forgot. You are not using python for your business, therefore you can't know, that strings in python can for example be identified by surrounding '.

> ic an understandn onlt that utf-8 has failsed decoding some byte stream 
> satrting with \xb6
So ... where did you call utf-8() so that it could try to decode something?