06-04-2008, 02:40 AM | #1 |
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Problems with downloading newsfeeds in Calibre
I have always had a problem downloading newsfeeds from Calibre and the previous incarnation. I installed the newest version and tried to download the Wired newsfeed. As usual, I get an error message and I have to force quit the program (I am on a Mac). I am wondering if this is because I am in China and the government blocks RSS feeds? Anyway, here is the error message.
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128) Detailed traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 707, in news_fetched File "/Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1056, in conversion_job_exception UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 568: ordinal not in range(128) |
06-04-2008, 03:16 AM | #2 |
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try
Code:
feeds2lrf Newsweek |
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06-04-2008, 04:28 AM | #3 |
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It seemed to work. I got a lot of error messages saying it could not download some stuff and then this
Could not read stylesheet: http://ndn.newsweek.com/site/css/structure.css Could not read stylesheet: http://ndn.newsweek.com/site/css/components.css Could not read stylesheet: http://ndn.newsweek.com/site/css/widgets.css Processing index.html which I assume had something to do with the undownloaded material. The rest seemed to work. So what do i do now? Can I use calibre to install it to the reader? Is there a setting that I can set to get it to work in the program? |
06-04-2008, 04:32 AM | #4 |
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Never mind. Found the lrf file. But can I change something in calibre to get it to work?
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06-04-2008, 01:26 PM | #5 |
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Tell me what line 1056 is in /Applications/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py
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06-04-2008, 09:21 PM | #6 |
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The file is very long. Is there a way I can jump to line 1065? I am still kind of new at Macs. If I count, I am sure to make a mistake. Can I search for something?
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06-04-2008, 11:25 PM | #7 |
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open it in vim (at a terminal type vim filename)
then type Code:
:1056 |
06-04-2008, 11:28 PM | #8 |
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or even easier (at a terminal type)
Code:
head -n 1046 filename | tail -n1 |
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msg += formatted_traceback + '</pre>'
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06-05-2008, 12:03 AM | #10 |
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Try the next release, hopefully it will give a more meaningful error message
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