On 22 June 2012 17:13, Dr. Trigon dr.trigon@surfeu.ch wrote:
...BUT what about the error I got? Does anybody experience the same? I think it is related to network timeouts (e.g. servers not reachable) and thus hard to reproduce...
My guess: you are running a German Windows version, which will give you a German error message, with non-ASCII characters, when the connection fails. This error message is encoded in the latin-1 ('western european') encoding, and decoding it as plain ascii fails. Feel free to substitute German for French, Spanish or any other language that might have non-ascii error messages.
We should probably decode it using the current console encoding, but it's not really clear to me what the pitfalls would be.
Merlijn