Running without choosing encoding on an iso-8859 file fails with a traceback

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Running without choosing encoding on an iso-8859 file fails with a traceback

harelba opened this issue 4 years ago · 1 comments

The AttributeError("'UnicodeDecodeError' object has no attribute 'message'") is being written to stderr, instead of a proper encoding warning.

Answer 1 · 2021-09-03T14:31:46.000Z

This is because the program handles a ValueError by catching it and printing out the message attribute, but UnicodeDecodeError is a subclass of ValueError and lacks a message attribute. UnicodeDecodeError needs to be caught before ValueError. Will try to file a PR soon.