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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

pentadactyl: Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

A couple of weeks ago I've noticed pentadactyl doesn't want to bookmark some pages and prints errors (in the status line) like

Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

or regarding some iso code. I can still bookmark all pages via the firefox UI.

I'm using firefox 31.0-1 and the issue persists in the current pentadactyl nightly.
I'm bookmarking by pressing 'a' and hitting 'Enter'.

a - Open a prompt to bookmark the current URL

I often follow it with 'd' to close the tab and if I do it quickly, the error is not printed, the bookmark is not saved and I'm left scratching my head some time later when trying to find the website in my bookmarks.
Grrrr.

If you're using pentadactyl, can you bookmark e.g. https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 29357.html ?

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: pentadactyl: Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

Works for me.

:version
Pentadactyl 1.1 (created 2014/03/15 20:14:21) running on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0

Maybe you can configure pentadactyl to leave out the -charset part from the command that pressing a "builds".

:bmark -id=188 -title='[aur-general] replacing packages with split packages: how to merge?' -charset=windows-1252 https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-August/029357.html

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pentadactyl: Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

Yes, older versions of pentadactyl still work. I just want somebody to bisect it for me ;P

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: pentadactyl: Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

Oops, I misread 'current pentadactyl nightly' as 'current firefox nightly'.

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pentadactyl: Invalid argument for option -charset: windows-1252

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dact … 140804.xpi breaks it. The August 3rd nightly still works.
Now off to the bug tracker ...

Edit: https://code.google.com/p/dactyl/issues/detail?id=1194

Maybe it's https://github.com/5digits/dactyl/commi … f2fdc9e6e7 - some encoding bits get removed.

Last edited by karol (2014-08-18 21:26:16)