[Devel] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Yu Wang]

Hi,

I recently moved my blog to Wordpress based at wangxiaohu.org, and updated the
feed URL in config.ini for http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~wangy22/friends

But I just found that my feed is not sync'd due to some problems I found in the
log, as shown below:

--Log starts--
INFO:root:Subscribing <http://wangxiaohu.org/index.php/feed>
INFO:root:Updating feed <http://wangxiaohu.org/index.php/feed>
DEBUG:root:Encoding: UTF-8 (data)
DEBUG:root:E-Tag: "eaf48f3f96fb91dc1e3849c204d3d5ee"
DEBUG:root:Modified: November 08, 2005 06:11 PM
DEBUG:root:URI: <http://wangxiaohu.org/index.php/feed>
ERROR:root:Update from <http://wangxiaohu.org/index.php/feed> failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/planet.py", line 130, in ?
    channel.update()
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/planetlib.py", line 184, in update
    self._update(baseuri, data)
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/planetlib.py", line 290, in _update
    feed.feed(data)
  File "/usr/src/build/394694-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.py", line
95, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/usr/src/build/394694-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.py", line
134, in goahead
    k = self.parse_endtag(i)
  File "/usr/src/build/394694-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.py", line
293, in parse_endtag
    self.finish_endtag(tag)
  File "/usr/src/build/394694-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.py", line
333, in finish_endtag
    self.unknown_endtag(tag)
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/feedparser.py", line 358, in unknown_endtag
    method()
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/feedparser.py", line 778, in _end_content
    value = self.pop('content')
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/feedparser.py", line 480, in pop
    output = resolveRelativeURIs(output, self.baseuri)
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/feedparser.py", line 898, in
resolveRelativeURIs
    data = p.output()
  File "/nfs/u1/se02/wangy22/friends/feedparser.py", line 853, in output
    return "".join(self.pieces)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal
not in range(128)
--Log ends--

I have googled for a while but found no solution yet. I have tested some buggy
post in MSN Space, i.e. with the same special chars, and the planet just import
it with no problem. So I think it has problem with either Wordpress' feed export
routine or planetlib.py.

Please help!