[chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

[Björn Ekelund]

Thanks. Just as fldigi then. It seems to be the same with all programs ported from Linux. A command line option could solve it so easily. 

Björn 

> 24 juli 2016 kl. 13:11 skrev Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com>:
> 
>> 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
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