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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 28: invalid start byte
See original GitHub issueLatest release has introduced a new bug (this same code worked on 0.5.0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pdfkit/api.py", line 72, in from_string
return r.to_pdf(output_path)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pdfkit/pdfkit.py", line 146, in to_pdf
if 'cannot connect to X server' in stderr.decode('utf-8'):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 28: invalid start byte
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Getting the same error. pdfkit==0.6.1
I can definitely confirm that this issue still persists in version 0.6.1. I tried it in a clean docker environment. In order to reproduce this error, the following command is enough:
pdfkit.from_string('<html></html>', False).to_pdf(False).decode(). This leads to:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 785: invalid start byte@JazzCore do you have any idea why this is?
Update Downgrading to 0.5.0 also did not lead to success
If I look at the file I can see that there are a lot of non-byte-characters at the beginning which seem to be the shell output of the executed command:
Okay, this can be suppressed by using the
'quiet'option. However, this doesn’t solve the problem either.Update Using
decode(errors='ignore')works…