On 09/09/2015 08:59, Laszlo Lebrun via Python-list wrote: > On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:35:33 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 08/09/2015 20:14, Laszlo Lebrun via Python-list wrote: >>> >>> Dear group, >>> I do use Windows 7 and have a user name with diacritics. >>> >>> Whenever I am querying an extension with pip, it will fail since it >>> does not pass on the user folder correctly. >>> I thought PIP deals well with unicode, doesn't it?
> Yes, you are right, let me append the message. > Just after a fresh install of Python with PIP on Windows. > Whenever I start PIP, I get: > "Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"C:\Users > \B├╝rgerGegenFlugl├ñrm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32 > \python.exe" "C:\Users\B³rgerGegenFluglõrm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python > \Python35-32\Scripts\pip.exe" '" > > Where the correct path is "C:\Users\BürgerGegenFluglärm\AppData..." > > The funny thing is that the message mentions the path twice, with > different wrong codings. > :-( > What version of pip are you using? Since (from the path) I guess you have a 32-bit version of Python 3.5, I assume it's the version which was installed with that but just check: pip --version Hopefully someone here can help, but in fact pip is not part of core Python: the ensurepip mechanism (which *is* part of core Python) bootstraps a recent version of pip but it's maintained elsewhere. So you may need to raise this as a bug on the Pip tracker: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
