`mastodon-backup-to-html.py` dies with `UnicodeError` about mastodon-archive HOT 6 CLOSED

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I created an account with then name "Alex Schroeder ⚠" and the text "Testing äöü" and was able to make a backup and export it to HTML without an error. Thus, I need to know more. I'm using Python 3.6.3, I'm on macOS, $LANG is not set, locale says:

alex@Megabombus:~/src/mastodon-backup (master %=)$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

Any other info you can provide?

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I'm a bit concerned that you're not using the latest version. I have print(html) on line 276 of mastodon-backup-to-html.py.

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It was an issue with locales. I wonder why I never had any problems with it before. Maybe Python3 is more strict or something? :-S

In any case, thanks. PEBKAC.

BTW, I had the latest version. Pulling now brought several commits, all of them <10h old. About the location of print(html), hm, it's still on line 294. I have no idea what's going on. I only see one branch in the repo, I'm up-to-date, and I don't have local changes :-/

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Ah, sorry, forgot to mention it for reference. The output of locale used to be:

LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=POSIX
LC_NUMERIC=nb_NO.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY=nb_NO.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT=nb_NO.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

The only change to make it work was setting LC_TYPE to (in this case) nb_NO.UTF-8. Thanks for the tip, and sorry again for the noise.

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