Pascal Garcia added the comment:
Sorry for this error.
Thanks for the solution.
Here is the code as I modify it.
wrkdir= os.path.expanduser("~"+os.sep)
loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
if loc[1]:
encoding = loc[1]
Pascal Garcia added the comment:
Here are 2 logs one with the default site.py forcing defaultencoding to ascii,
and the other to utf8.
You can see that the home dir includes accents : Pépé Not an insult to anybody
but this stupid computer :)
When I force using the locale.getdefaultlocale() as
New submission from Pascal Garcia:
The name of the user contains accents under windows.
This error occurs when using the function. expaduser("~")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 10:
ordinal not in range(128)
ascii i
