UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 209: ordinal not in range(128)

[nick-barth]

I'd try to dig into this myself as well, but it seems like you've got some extensive experience with this error. Wasn't sure if I should've made a new issue or comment on an old similar case.

[ownaginatious]

Can you post the full stack trace?

[stephaniegott]

Hello! I am also having this problem. Here is the full stack trace I get when I run fbcap ./messages.htm -f csv > messages.csv:

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                          
  File "/usr/local/bin/fbcap", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('fbchat-archive-parser==0.8.post16', 'console_scripts', 'fbcap')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/main.py", line 154, in main
    app.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/clip.py", line 652, in run
    self.invoke(self.parse(tokens))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/clip.py", line 634, in invoke
    self._main.invoke(parsed)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/clip.py", line 519, in invoke
    self._callback(**{k: v for k, v in iteritems(parsed) if k not in self._subcommands})
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/main.py", line 98, in fbcap
    write(format, fbch, sys.stdout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/writers/__init__.py", line 18, in write
    item().write(data, stream)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/writers/writer.py", line 17, in write
    return self.write_history(data, stream)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/writers/csv.py", line 43, in write_history
    self.write_thread(history.threads[k], stream, writer=writer)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/writers/csv.py", line 49, in write_thread
    self.write_message(message, stream, thread, writer=writer)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/writers/csv.py", line 71, in write_message
    writer.writerow(self.encode_row(row))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/csv.py", line 152, in writerow
    return self.writer.writerow(self._dict_to_list(rowdict))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/colorama/ansitowin32.py", line 40, in write
    self.__convertor.write(text)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/colorama/ansitowin32.py", line 141, in write
    self.write_and_convert(text)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/colorama/ansitowin32.py", line 169, in write_and_convert
    self.write_plain_text(text, cursor, len(text))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/colorama/ansitowin32.py", line 174, in write_plain_text
    self.wrapped.write(text[start:end])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 369, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 158: ordinal not in range(128)

[ownaginatious]

Thanks for posting a stack trace! Does this also happen when you choose an output format other than csv?

[ownaginatious]

Never mind, I was able to reproduce the issue. I'm working on a solution now :)

[ownaginatious]

Please try now with version 0.8.post21 on PyPI and let me know if it now works.

[stephaniegott]

Works great on my end! :)