hi,

This is a bug reported last August for Mac, but it is also happening for freebsd8.2 (amd64).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/707396

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Apr  5 2011, 13:19:14)

[GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]] on freebsd8

from lxml import etree

parser = etree.HTMLParser(encoding='cp1252')

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "lxml_bug.py", line 11, in <module>

    parser = etree.HTMLParser(encoding='cp1252')

  File "parser.pxi", line 1423, in lxml.etree.HTMLParser.__init__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:81303)

  File "parser.pxi", line 743, in lxml.etree._BaseParser.__init__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:76172)

LookupError: unknown encoding: 'cp1252'

Here are my details:

Python              : sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=1, releaselevel='final', serial=0)

lxml.etree          : (2, 3, 1, 0)

libxml used         : (2, 7, 8)

libxml compiled     : (2, 7, 8)

libxslt used        : (1, 1, 26)

libxslt compiled    : (1, 1, 26)

platform.architecture()

('64bit', 'ELF')

thanks,

--Tim Arnold