On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:28:08 +0100 dinkypumpkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/10/2014 23:40, Nick wrote: > > Is this a problem of my doing? > > > > $ get_iplayer iggy -g > > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with > > no preceding start byte) at /home/nick/bin/get_iplayer line 10484. > > It looks like the self-update mechanism mangles UTF-8 characters in > the script. The line referenced is where a copyright symbol is > inserted to prettify the MP4 metadata tag. Too clever for my own > good, I guess. For now, download the 2.87 tarball and use the > get_iplayer script in there. > I did have a look at the line and it looks OK to me.... a non-perl programmer :) The copyright symbol is there and visible in a text editor (Leafpad)..... but looking at the file in a terminal with less and the copyright symbol shows as <A9>, with inverted colours! I have actually just commented out the whole line, it was easier: the code was right there in Leafpad, or a manual swap of files. #, ctrl-s, done :) Before making a change though I tried get_iplayer in uxterm (got the same byte message), though I am pretty sure my whole OS works properly with UTF, the locale is all en-GB.utf8. I have recently used some unicode characters in a bash script and didn't get errors or inconsistent behaviour..... that gives me an idea: $ file ../bin/phonebatt.sh ../bin/phonebatt.sh: Bourne-Again shell script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable $ file ../bin/get_iplayer ../bin/get_iplayer: Perl script, ASCII text executable, with very long lines If my system is seeing g_ip as ASCII when it contains UTF characters that might explain the original message. I wouldn't be surprised at all though if this is my system, I know I don't really know what I am doing with text encodings and stuff (I've had problems in the past, with media metadata as it happens). fx: hacking Right, I've fixed it properly now, I think :) I've uncommented the line so the perl script is stock, but then in Leafpad clicked file, save-as, and changed the text encoding to be UTF8 (it was ISO 8859-15). The file command still sees the get_iplayer script file as ASCII, so I'm still a bit confused, but at least there isn't the malformed byte message anymore: $ get_iplayer -g Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) at /home/internewt/bin/get_iplayer line 10484. get_iplayer v2.87, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details. ERROR: Search term(s) required for recording $ leafpad ../bin/get_iplayer # /me changes text format $ get_iplayer -g get_iplayer v2.87, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details. ERROR: Search term(s) required for recording No idea if this byte message is occurring for other people, or how much it matters, but hopefully what I have said is useful. Cheers Nick _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
