I'm trying to use the CLI tool, but I'm getting an "Error encoding the request.."

[CodeForCoffee]

I'm trying to use the CLI tool, but I'm getting an "Error encoding the request (tried UTF-8), please specify an --encoding parameter" I've tried this with utf_8, ascii, utf_32, utf8. All with the same result.

./crucible.py REVIEW-1 --encoding utf_8

Note I've tried leaving off the --encoding.

[Tom Davies]

Can you please try again without the --encoding parameter, but with a --debug parameter and tell us what the output of the command is?

Thanks,

Tom

[Paul Collins]

I just ran into this after a year using the tool successfully. Manually uploading the diff gave a clue: it would not anchor, and in the revision that Crucible said conflicted there was a funny character near the previous (and the new) changes:

There was an apostrophe encoded in Western MacOS Roman. I changed it to a plain ASCII apostrophe in my local source, made a new diff, and that uploaded and anchored ok

This did not fix the python error, but now I know what to look for and a workaround. Possibly fiddling around with encoding in the source file would have helped.