ValueError: multi-byte encodings are not supported

[onmyway133]

I'm using exitwp to migrate from Wordpress to Octopress

• I export my Wordpress (4.3.1) posts to wordpress.xml
• I add xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom to my rss element

but then I get ValueError: multi-byte encodings are not supported.

My wordpress.xml is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-7" ?>, so I must convert it to UTF-8 for it to work. Hope it helps someone

[thomasf]

One of the big issues I had when migrating a bunch of blogs when I created exitwp was that wordpress (or maybe plugins) also more or less had ignored the encodings to begin with so what the header said did not have a relation to the actual content. The code probably reflects this by enforcing some encodings by default, I have started to forget how exitwp works since it now was some time since I last used it so you probably know more than me at this point.