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Thanks for reporting! Can you send me the pdf which produces the error?
On Nov 18, 2015 19:44, "davemcphee" [email protected] wrote:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\python\CouncilAgendaMapper>pdfx --debug agenda.pdf
DEBUG - init - Init with uri: agenda.pdf
Document infos:

• Author = blah
• CreationDate = D:20151106153359-06'00' Traceback (most recent call
  last): File "C:\Python33\lib\runpy.py", line 160, in run_module_as_main
  "main", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "C:\Python33\lib\runpy.py",
  line 73, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File
  "C:\Python33\Scripts\pdfx.exe__main.py", line 9, in File
  "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pdfx\cli.py", line 90, in main print("- %s =
  %s" % (k, parse_str(v).strip("/"))) File
  "C:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode return
  codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xae' in
  position 21 : character maps to

Not sure what the correct way to handle encoding errors would be, skip the
char?

I usually fix this kind of issue by changing the cmd window encoding, eg.:
cmd> chcp 65001

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Hi Chris,

sure thing, I think it was this:
http://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=242173

I know nothing about PDF encoding, but I do know about parsing HTML from
that source, and it's all generated in MS Word, so expect a horror show
inside that PDF. Good luck :)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:24 PM Chris Hager [email protected]
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Thanks for reporting! Can you send me the pdf which produces the error?
On Nov 18, 2015 19:44, "davemcphee" [email protected] wrote:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\python\CouncilAgendaMapper>pdfx --debug agenda.pdf
DEBUG - init - Init with uri: agenda.pdf
Document infos:

• Author = blah
• CreationDate = D:20151106153359-06'00' Traceback (most recent call
  last): File "C:\Python33\lib\runpy.py", line 160, in run_module_as_main
  "main", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "C:\Python33\lib\runpy.py",
  line 73, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File
  "C:\Python33\Scripts\pdfx.exe__main.py", line 9, in File
  "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pdfx\cli.py", line 90, in main print("-
  %s =
  %s" % (k, parse_str(v).strip("/"))) File
  "C:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode return
  codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xae' in
  position 21 : character maps to

Not sure what the correct way to handle encoding errors would be, skip
the
char?

I usually fix this kind of issue by changing the cmd window encoding,
eg.:
cmd> chcp 65001

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Just a note: I've found out that this problem is caused by the Windows console not being able to display unicode characters. I'm going to look into a solution.

• https://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintFails
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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Should work now on the Github version. CLI tries to encode contents to console encoding:

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