- **status**: open-accepted --> closed-wont-fix

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** [bugs:#1658] “Title contains illegal char (\uFFFD)” with existing page**

**Status:** closed-wont-fix **Labels:** character encoding **Created:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 08:00 AM UTC by Adrián Chaves Fernández **Last Updated:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 03:30 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody

This is happening with the following existing page: http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/fy/Fryske_kompj%C3%BBterwurden

Traceback (most recent call last): File "maintenance.py", line 81, in <module> main() File "maintenance.py", line 77, in main bot.run() File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/scripts/replace.py", line 326, in run for page in self.generator: File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/pagegenerators.py", line 799, in PreloadingGenerator for page in generator: File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/pagegenerators.py", line 749, in DuplicateFilterPageGenerator for page in generator: File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 706, in __iter__ yield self.result(item) File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 780, in result p = pywikibot.Page(self.site, pagedata['title'], pagedata['ns']) File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 249, in wrapper return method(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 249, in wrapper return method(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/page.py", line 77, in __init__ self._link = Link(title, source=source, defaultNamespace=ns) File "/home/gallaecio/fontes/rodela/pywikibot/page.py", line 2958, in __init__ raise pywikibot.Error("Title contains illegal char (\uFFFD)")

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