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Extractor patterns break when run on linux server

Hi, I have some scraping sessions which work perfectly on Windows but when I export them to my linux web server, they only partially work. The logs say that the extractor patterns don't match.

Is there any likely place where I should expect to find the cause of this problem?

‹ Attempt to invoke method: write() on undefined variable or class name ERROR: Failed to save the file: C:\.... The error message was No route to host: connect. ›
duckyfuzz on 01/20/2011 at 12:34 pm

Nevermind, managed to get to

Nevermind, managed to get to the root of this myself.

The problem was caused by the character "£"

It seems that in the windows scraper this is represented by "£" whereas in Linux it is "?".

No idea if this is a screen-scraper bug or a Windows/Linux issue.

 duckyfuzz on 01/21/2011 at 6:13 am

You most likely just need to

You most likely just need to adjust your default character set and default font on the linux box.

 jason on 01/21/2011 at 5:01 pm