Re: [racket-users] UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

2020-09-21 Thread breanndan....@gmail.com
A student reports the error on versions 7.8, 7.7 and also 7.4 and says that he doesn't get any more debugging information. On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 17:10:42 UTC+2 Robby Findler wrote: > I know only that we didn't get the report with earlier versions. > > BTW, if one click on the dialog

Re: [racket-users] UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

2020-09-17 Thread Robby Findler
I know only that we didn't get the report with earlier versions. BTW, if one click on the dialog that has the error message, there should be a "copy" option that will let you get some potentially valuable debugging information. If it is easy to get a student who is having the problem to do that,

Re: [racket-users] UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

2020-09-17 Thread breanndan....@gmail.com
Thanks Robby. We'll experiment with that. Any idea if it's just the current version fo DrRacket? We could have them try installing the previous version for the time being. On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 14:45:06 UTC+2 Robby Findler wrote: > We have had one other report yes. It looks like

Re: [racket-users] UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

2020-09-17 Thread Robby Findler
We have had one other report yes. It looks like something is going wrong with the open file dialog. It may be possible to open files by double clicking on them to sidestep the bug I am not sure. Sorry about this. Robby On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:29 AM breanndan@gmail.com <

[racket-users] UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

2020-09-17 Thread breanndan....@gmail.com
I have two students who just installed DrRacket on Windows 10 and get this error when they try to open files: bytes->string/locale: string is not a well-formed UTF-8 encoding string: #"\340lU\1" Has anyone else encountered this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the