FIXED: ``UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte''. This error is

due to a limitation in the Python HTMLParser module, see:
http://bugs.python.org/issue3932 Resolved by assuming UTF-8 input (this
assumption is not always going be correct but it will be correct more often
that not doing anything and assuming an ascii encoding.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/a2x.py b/a2x.py
index cd95c99..8ec66c4 100755
--- a/a2x.py
+++ b/a2x.py
@@ -237,7 +237,9 @@ def find_resources(files, tagname, attrname, filter=None):
         if OPTIONS.dry_run:
             continue
         parser = FindResources()
-        parser.feed(open(f).read())
+        # UTF-8 is a better bet than the default ASCII.
+        # See http://bugs.python.org/issue3932
+        parser.feed(open(f).read().decode('utf8'))
         parser.close()
     result = list(set(result))   # Drop duplicate values.
     result.sort()