2012/6/23 Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl
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.
Is this the same as http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3153555&group_id=931... This is an old problem. Once I tried to deal with that but could not reproduce the error on purpose. How to create a test environment for such network errors?