Re: [chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Björn Ekelund bjorn@ekelund.nu wrote:

Chirp crashes/aborts when the Windows user name contains European/Cyrillic characters.

The last line of the debug.log file reads: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 9: invalid start byte"

Is there a workaround? Like a command like option to set the file location to a location without "strange characters"?

Changing the user name to something else isn't really an option since it used for other systems...

Björn Ekelund SM7IUN

Hi Björn,

Two workarounds I can think of would be to create another user without European/Cyrillic characters just for CHIRP programming and using CHIRP Live CD.

Jim KC9HI