Re: Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8

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From	Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject	Re: Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8
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On 12.01.2016 13:09, Michael Uplawski wrote:
> HI again.
>
> Additional information.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:32:47 +0100,
> Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> wrote:
>> What does this error point at? My connection is at the moment very very
>> crappy, i.e. ideal to test my download manager. I venture, that the
>> “invalid codepoint” problem is related to the fact that my
>> satellite-connection tends to suffer interruptions during my attempt to
>> get a file from the Internet, but cannot be sure.
>
> However, wget -c works for the same file. Connection-problems or not, my
> ruby-routines appear to do something different. I will try to see and
> understand the wget source-code, but would all the same appreciate your
> assistence.

You are probably using a wrong encoding to convert bytes to a String. 
Note that this conversion might be implicit somewhere.  You would have 
to trace the line triggering the error.

Kind regards

	robert


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Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8 Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2016-01-12 10:32 +0100
  Re: Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8 Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2016-01-12 13:09 +0100
    Re: Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-01-12 19:31 +0100
      [Solved] Was: Download problem: invalid codepoint 0x... in UTF-8 Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2016-01-13 07:31 +0100

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