Merge pull request MIT-LCP#68 from khertan/patch-1

cx1111 · web-flow · commit a06d163e91be · 2017-09-26T10:36:27.000-04:00
UnicodeDecodeError when downloading mghdb
diff --git a/wfdb/readwrite/downloads.py b/wfdb/readwrite/downloads.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def streamheader(recordname, pbdir):
     r.raise_for_status()
 
     # Get each line as a string
-    filelines = r.content.decode('ascii').splitlines()
+    filelines = r.content.decode('iso-8859-1').splitlines()
 
     # Separate content into header and comment lines
     headerlines = []
