Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#3500 new defect
starting French WinGRASS sometimes fails because of localisation errors
| Reported by: | ychemin | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.4.5 |
| Component: | Startup | Version: | 7.4.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| CPU: | Unspecified | Platform: | MSWindows 8 |
Description
When starting WinGRASS (7.4.0.) on French windows machine (variable, reported example is W10), sometimes it just stops when launching the terminal to initialise the start of GRASS (not reaching the wxGUI even)
UNICODE Error: ascii codec cannot encode character u'\xe9' in position 11, ordinal not in range(128).
Attachments (2)
Change History (8)
by , 7 years ago
| Attachment: | Grass SIG 7.5 BUG.JPG added |
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comment:1 by , 7 years ago
Please provide your username and home folder.
This error indicates on having non-ascii letters in some place GUI doesn't expect. My guess - your addons path.
follow-up: 3 comment:2 by , 7 years ago
It did happen on several PCs during the week, so my fair guess will be that the c:\Users\NameofUserIsFrenchWithFrenchAccent\
comment:3 by , 7 years ago
Replying to ychemin:
It did happen on several PCs during the week, so my fair guess will be that the c:\Users\NameofUserIsFrenchWithFrenchAccent\
see for a similar issue here:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-web/2018-February/004855.html
comment:5 by , 7 years ago
| Milestone: | → 7.2.4 |
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comment:6 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | Default → Startup |
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| Milestone: | 7.2.4 → 7.4.5 |
| Summary: | starting French WinGRASS sometimes fails bc of localisation errors → starting French WinGRASS sometimes fails because of localisation errors |
.. still an issue? If yes in 7.4, is it ok in trunk?
actual screenshot of the bug on aW10 machine