'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 28: character maps to <undefined>

[coursera-dl]

'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 28: character maps to

from edx-dl.

[maxdd]

the 18th course (where it probably crash )is

HYPERS301x Hypersonics – from Shock Waves to Scramjets

the 19th course is

UTAustinX: UT.6.01x Embedded Systems - Shape the World

[maxdd]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5387895/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-u2013-in-position-3

maybe this could help you

[crypdick]

I am experiencing a similar error except with the 'ascii' codec

[maxdd]

If you know the number of the course you want, you can just open the *.py and comment out that print in order to move on with the program... it's not a solution but it should works

[crypdick]

@maxdd I tried commenting out the line with the commented with the print statement giving the error (line 371) but then the script doesn't run.
^Nevermind that was a network issue

Script runs but after week selection, processing, the script hangs on "[info] Output directory: Downloaded"

[maxdd]

mhmm cant help you then :( , if only shk3 could fix this ....

[shk3]

Hi @maxdd and @isomerase,
Thanks for your feedback. Are you all using Windows platform with Windows Command Line?

If so, this might be a known issue in #55, which is a bug of Windows console, and it seems like python3.3 supports a solution.

If you are running python3.3, please try to run the command in the following answer before running edx-dl.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388490/unicode-characters-in-windows-command-line-how
I am not sure if it would work since I am not working in python3.3 environment, and I would like to get feedback if you are using this environment.

[maxdd]

im on python2.7 , i tried the method there but not it stops way before with

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\edx-downloader\edx-dl.py", line 403, in
main()
File "C:\Python27\edx-downloader\edx-dl.py", line 265, in main
print('Welcome %s' % USERNAME)
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp65001

[shk3]

@maxdd, it's right. Python 2.7 doesn't support it. I believe Python starts to support it since python 3.3.

[crypdick]

@shk3 Sorry for the late response, Internet is scarce in Myanmar...

I am on OS X 10.6.8 and and using Python 2.7.3

[crypdick]

Is there any way that we can make it so that if it runs into this error it can skip that specific video and continue with the script?

[maxdd]

well in my case it doesnt even start to download, could you post the error it gives you?

[crypdick]

I can't actually make it that far in the script anymore due to a new issue (issue #92) but I posted my error here #55 (comment)

[shk3]

@maxdd and @isomerase, could you take a look at #99 to see if it solves the problem?

[snoww0lf]

try to use .encode('ascii', 'ignore') , but it just throws and won't show the non-ascii characters.

[iemejia]

I'm closing this one since it seems to be the same than issue #126 and we are continuing the discussion there. I also just pushed a PR that seems to solve the problem. Please report in case you have issues.