Re: [Straw-devel] Exception when downloading feeds

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:03:07PM +0100, Ross Burton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I try and read most feeds (slashdot for example), I get this error
> message from Straw 0.23:
> 
> LookupError: unknown encoding: en_US.ISO8859-1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 336, in 
> item_selection_changed
>     self.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 363, in display_item
>     straw.main.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 188, in display_item
>     straw.main_window.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 1416, in display_item
>     self._item_view.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 101, in display_item
>     html = (
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 145, in htmlify_item
>     self._date_format, self._encoding)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/utils.py", line 144, in format_date
>     return unicode(timestr, encoding)

Give the version in Juri's tla archive a try. Encoding problems are
fixed in it.

Juri, maybe it would be a good idea to release a new version soon, since
the OPML and encoding problems might discourage people from switching to
straw. (I haven't followed recent changes though, so I don't know how
stable straw currently is).

Lucas