Re: Error on running convert.ly

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John McWilliam" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Error on running convert.ly
>
>
>>I have recently had the following problems and as yet have not received any
>> suggestions for solving this:
>
> Following some informations about your operating system....
>
>> - point and click no longer works for me
>
> On any file?  When did it stop working?  What happens?
>
>> - convert-ly gives an error when I try to run it on old files.
>
> How old is old.  Does it work on "new" files.  How new is new?
>
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 45-47:
>> invalid data
>
> Well - it looks like you have byte-encoded data that convert-ly can't
> understand.

A precise diagnosis would require including files as attachments rather
than pasting them in a mail.

-- 
David Kastrup