The file I'm trying to upload is the *.png thumbnail of the Pywikipediabot
logo from this page... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Pwb_icon.svg

The thumbnail is called
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Pwb_icon.svg/128px-Pwb_icon.svg.png
but I have shortened the filename, as per the example below, to
"Pwbicon.png" (without the quotes). So the filename should not contain any
non-ASCII chars. As for the file itself, I don't know, and wouldn't even
know how to find out. ;)

> For me it seems that you have an HTTP error on uploading and the error
> message contains a non-ASCII character. This is an old problem, nobody
> could solve it by this time.
> Does your uploaded file contain none-ASCII chars?
>
>
>
> 2013/8/21 AugurNZ <augurnz@orcon.net.nz>
>
>> Hi, I was pointed here from #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC. I am using
>> Pywikipediabot (trunk) revision 11781 under Ubuntu 12.04. I'm having no
>> success using the upload.py script. It keeps failing with the following
>> error message...
>>
>> ----------
>> augur@ubuntu:/home/augur/pywikipedia# python upload.py -family:tropical
>> -keep -filename:Pwbicon.png -noverify Pwbicon.png "The Pywikipediabot
>> icon"
>> No handlers could be found for logger "pywiki"
>> Reading file Pwbicon.png
>> The suggested description is:
>> The Pywikipediabot icon
>> Uploading file to tropical:en via API....
>> ERROR: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in
>> position 654: ordinal not in range(128)
>> WARNING: Could not open 'http://www.tropicalwikis.com/w/api.php'. Maybe
>> the server or
>>  your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...
>> ----------
>>
>> I can perform other actions on www.tropicalwikis.com with my bot, such
>> as
>> using login.py, replace.py etc. I have also tried using a different
>> -family: and logging in to www.thetestwiki.org (where I also have a
>> valid
>> bot account) and tried uploading the image file there, with the same
>> result.
>>
>> I'm not a python expert, in fact I'm barely a python novice. I came
>> across
>> this information which may be relevant though...
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeDecodeError
>>
>> Thanks.
>> AugurNZ
>>
>> ps. sorry if this is a repeat of a previous message. I wasn't registered
>> on the list when I first sent this, but I am now.
>>
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