Hi, I''m having the error: Iconv::InvalidEncoding: invalid encoding (""ISO-8859-1"", "UTF-8") when trying to post via Mechanize. It used to work just fine, but the error appeared after (I think) upgrading to Rails 2.3.2, Ruby 1.8.7, Mechanize 0.9.2 (I upgraded a while ago and only now noticed the problem). What does it mean? Is there any way to disable/bypass the error? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot, Ariel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Jeffrey L. Taylor
2009-Jun-08 16:24 UTC
Re: Iconv::InvalidEncoding (""ISO-8859-1"", "UTF-8")
Quoting Ariel Sch <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>:> > Hi, > > > I''m having the error: Iconv::InvalidEncoding: invalid encoding > (""ISO-8859-1"", "UTF-8") when trying to post via Mechanize. > > It used to work just fine, but the error appeared after (I think) > upgrading to Rails 2.3.2, Ruby 1.8.7, Mechanize 0.9.2 (I upgraded a > while ago and only now noticed the problem). > > What does it mean? Is there any way to disable/bypass the error? > Any help would be much appreciated! >Two things, try without the double quotes in the first argument (unless this is just a transcription error), and have you checked that there is no invalid codes in the input, i.e. that the input is truely ASCII or Latin-1? I have similar errors but every time I''ve looked, it is because the source has garble in it. Latin-1 but they claim it is UTF-8 (these are RSS feeds), or no encoding info at all (perhaps some Windows encoding). I have not figured out how to get Iconv to recover from errors; if you do, please post the solution here. Jeffrey