url with gbk encode report UnicodeDecodeError

[rogerdehe]

I have an API which use gbk encode, I have to call like this:

echo http://10.202.15.197:20176?user_id=1&query_type=GEOSPLIT&address=广东省深圳市宝安&ret_splitinfo=1 | iconv -f utf-8 -t gbk | xargs curl | iconv -f gbk -t utf-8

but if I change cURL to httpie it will report :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/http", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('httpie==0.9.8', 'console_scripts', 'http')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httpie/__main__.py", line 11, in main
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httpie/core.py", line 182, in main
    args = decode_args(args, env.stdin_encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httpie/core.py", line 71, in decode_args
    for arg in args
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 65: invalid start byte

[GotoCode]

Is it possible that the arguments to iconv have been supplied in reverse?

From what I understand, since the URL uses the GBK encoding, I believe this part of your code:

... | iconv -f utf-8 -t gbk | xargs http | iconv -f gbk -t utf-8

...should actually be written as:

... | iconv -f gbk -t utf-8 | xargs http | iconv -f utf-8 -t gbk

[BoboTiG]

I think @GotoCode has found the issue and fix 🥧

Please feel free to reopen this if you still have the issue/questions.