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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:00:16 +1000
Subject: Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:53 PM, =CD=DF=EA=EF=F2 <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position =
0:
> invalid start byte

Something's trying to decode a stream of bytes as UTF-8, and it's not
UTF-8. Work out what in your code is bytes and what is strings, and do
your own conversions.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

READ IT. Do not write another line of code until you actually
understand what he's saying there.

ChrisA