Doesn't work for European stock quotes

[verthezp]

Looks good, but it chokes on European stock quotes, such as EPA:ALU.

If you add a try/catch around the load_contents, lg shows the following exception:
Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: invalid byte sequence in conversion input

If you call the URL manually in firefox (https://www.google.com/finance/info?q=EPA:ALU) you get:

// [ { "id": "673489" ,"t" : "ALU" ,"e" : "EPA" ,"l" : "0.949" ,"l_cur" : "€0.95" ,"s": "0" ,"ltt":"5:35PM GMT+02:00" ,"lt" : "Sep 19, 5:35PM GMT+02:00" ,"c" : "-0.005" ,"cp" : "-0.52" ,"ccol" : "chr" } ]

So I guess the Euro sign in l_cur is the problem. Any idea how to fix this?

[nanorepublica]

Hey sorry, this has been left for so long, was hoping this had been fixed in gnome-shell 3.6.2, but is hasn't. There doesn't seem to be much I can do about it as you correctly pointed out that load_contents just fails. I will be raising a bug on the gnome-shell bugzilla shortly and I will post the link here when I do so you can track it's progress.