[bug]: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 59: invalid continuation byte

[cmensah]

[bug]: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 59: invalid continuation byte

[hipsterusername]

@lstein - Do you think this might be system specific?

[cmensah]

Maybe i need to add this :
-my system is in French

• my python version is 3.11.5
• my pip version is 24.0
  Previous InvokeAI version was working great

[hipsterusername]

Maybe i need to add this : -my system is in French

* my python version is 3.11.5

* my pip version is 24.0
  Previous InvokeAI version was working great

Yes, that seems to be the case - But that's an issue we need to fix I think

[psychedelicious]

It appears the é character in Sombre Clarté is the issue.

Please open a command line window and try this command. Does it error?

python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode())"

Next, try this command. Does it error?

python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode("utf-8"))"

[cmensah]

Okay,.
First :
C:\Users\Sombre Clarté>python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode())"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 12: invalid start byte

C:\Users\Sombre Clarté>python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode())"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 12: invalid start byte

Second :

C:\Users\Sombre Clarté>python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode("utf-8"))"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
NameError: name 'utf' is not defined

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Indeed, the character "é" has caused me some problems since I started to get interested in scripts and everything related to artificial intelligence.

I have been using my windows system for far too long, so it's too late to change.
I'll think about it if I ever install another system!

[psychedelicious]

@cmensah I apologize, I had a typo in the second command - please try this one:

python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode('utf-8'))"

Hopefully this works without an error, and we can update the installer to handle é.

[cmensah]

@cmensah I apologize, I had a typo in the second command - please try this one:

python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode('utf-8'))"

Hopefully this works without an error, and we can update the installer to handle é.

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C:\Users\Sombre Clarté>python -c "import subprocess; print(subprocess.check_output('echo Sombre Clarté', shell=True).decode('utf-8'))"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 12: invalid start byte

C:\Users\Sombre Clarté>

this guy : 0x82 :)

[psychedelicious]

Oh boy, fun.

We have another related issue with an unexpected encoding here: https://discord.com/channels/1020123559063990373/1020123559831539744/1225085570032865291

In this case, the user (also with French characters) is getting an error when we attempt to read their config file into memory: