ValueError: multi-byte encodings are not supported

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Exitwp is tool primarily aimed for making migration from one or more wordpress blogs to the jekyll blog engine as easy as possible.

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ValueError: multi-byte encodings are not supported #58

Open onmyway133 opened 9 years ago

onmyway133 commented 9 years ago

I'm using exitwp to migrate from Wordpress to Octopress

I export my Wordpress (4.3.1) posts to wordpress.xml
I add xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom to my rss element

but then I get ValueError: multi-byte encodings are not supported.

My wordpress.xml is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-7" ?>, so I must convert it to UTF-8 for it to work. Hope it helps someone

thomasf commented 9 years ago

One of the big issues I had when migrating a bunch of blogs when I created exitwp was that wordpress (or maybe plugins) also more or less had ignored the encodings to begin with so what the header said did not have a relation to the actual content. The code probably reflects this by enforcing some encodings by default, I have started to forget how exitwp works since it now was some time since I last used it so you probably know more than me at this point.