Hi Friedrich

I have problems on the Dutch wikipedia as well if pages contains these characters or if you use the -file switch and you give the name of a file that contains these characters.

I do not have a solution though.

Regards Annabel

----- Original Message ---- From: Friedrich Gelbard friedrich.gelbard@gmx.net To: pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:22:25 PM Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] replace.py UnicodeDecodeError

I run the replace.py bot on a private MediaWiki. It works so for well but as soon as the page (where I want to replace words) contains German Umlaute like ä, ö, ü I get the error message

File "Z:\Spezifikation\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 2175, in getData data = data.encode(self.site.encoding()) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1684: ordin al not in range(128)

Is there any work around? Has someone tried the replace.py bot with German pages?

Thanks Friedrich

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