#589 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\

Download of http://pod.drs.ch/tagesgesprach_mpx.xml does not complete. It remains in state downloading.
I think the problem is "Tagesgespräch", the ä in the title.

DownloadJob 30545680 'tagesgespraech_200903191400_10075481.mp3' reports: An error occurred; aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ipodder\core.pyc", line 370, in run
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 447, in save_encinfo
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 23, in mkfilenamekey
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 93: ordinal not in range(128)

[Antoni Tovar]

Hi, I have similar problem :
Exception checking for update at url http://www.juicereceiver.com/update/current_version.xml
DownloadJob 40386448 '1265323640539.mp4' reports: An error occurred; aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ipodder\core.pyc", line 370, in run
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 447, in save_encinfo
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 23, in mkfilenamekey
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf2' in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)

maybe de problem : ò

[Cláudio Tereso]

Same problem with almost all podcasts win Windows XP Portuguese Version

DownloadJob 31106800 '023_Monstertalk.mp3' reports: An error occurred; aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ipodder\core.pyc", line 370, in run
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 447, in save_encinfo
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 23, in mkfilenamekey
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

[Hillbilly]

Same problem here...downloads to 100% but error will not let it complete.

Downloading http://rzim.vo.llnwd.net/o43/MP3/JT/JT20140211.mp3
DownloadJob 59159984 'JT20140205.mp3' reports: An error occurred; aborting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ipodder\core.pyc", line 365, in run
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 365, in save_encinfo
File "ipodder\history.pyc", line 20, in mkfilenamekey
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 54: ordinal not in range(128)

I am not a techie but apparently somethng to do with '\xbb' in the file that is not understood?

Suggestions/resolutions?

Thanks

[Mike Krejci]

I too am having this same issue and unable to get past 100% downloading on the files in the podcast.