Rails - Jun 2009 - Iconv::InvalidEncoding (""ISO-8859-1"", "UTF-8")

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
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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