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On 04/07/2013 11:38, Νίκος wrote:
> 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?
>
Well, it's from a bytestring, so you'll have to specify what encoding
you're using! (It clearly isn't UTF-8.)

If it's ISO-8859-7 (what you've previously referred to as "greek-iso"),
then:

 >>> import unicodedata
 >>> unicodedata.name(b"\xb6".decode("ISO-8859-7"))
'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS'

You'll need to find out where that bytestring is coming from.