Special characters and FB

[KonradSotniczuk]

Hi,
Thanks for your hard work!

After using it for a while, I have 2 questions.

1. If I want to use European special symbols, this will be enough - https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Special_symbols.html
   Like python sherlock 'XXXXX EEEi\eXXX' ?
   I get some search results when I try it, and later an Error:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
   return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
   File "C:\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
   exec(code, run_globals)
   File "D:\x\sherlock\sherlock_main.py", line 30, in
   sherlock.main()
   File "D:\x\sherlock\sherlock\sherlock.py", line 630, in main
   with open(result_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'XXXXXX EEEi\eXXX.txt'

2. For some searches it finds FB links, on others It does not. Not sure if it's a bug or I don;t understand how to use this.

[hoadlck]

I looked into it. Windows does not allow \ in a file name (probably because it is reserved for the directory separator). So, when the results text file is attempted to be created, it fails.

I don't think that there are any sites that allow \ in a user name. You are only using it here because you are trying to enter a non-ASCII escape code. Can you paste the actual utf-8 character on the console? Not using any escape codes? This was working for me.

In reality, Sherlock is expecting the username it is getting passed to be in utf-8 encoding. It is not honoring the escape codes.