[chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

[Jim Unroe]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Björn Ekelund <bjorn at 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