# Mechanize gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-gem/169161>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 30, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-gem/169161 "2009-05-30T14:22:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-gem/169161/1 "2009-05-30T14:22:57Z")

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Hi All,

I am trying to use Mechanize gem for some url, I am submitting the form  
in that url but on the following submit command I got an error message.

command: page = agent.submit(search\_form)

error: Iconv::InvalidEncoding  
invalid encoding (“ISO-8859-1;”, “UTF-8”)

Please help me out,

Thanks in advance,  
Saurabh

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**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mechanize-gem/169161/2 "2009-06-24T10:09:34Z")

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I have some problem - invalid encoding (“cp-1251”, “UTF-8”)  
And I dont find any information about it problem in Google

On 30 май, 15:22, Saurabh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)