On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Laszlo Lebrun via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > 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. > :-(
Peculiar. I don't know if it helps, but the first one seems to have been encoded UTF-8 and then decoded CP437; and the second has been encoded Latin-1 and decoded CP850. >>> "BürgerGegenFluglärm".encode("utf-8").decode("437") 'B├╝rgerGegenFlugl├ñrm' >>> "BürgerGegenFluglärm".encode("iso-8859-1").decode("850") 'B³rgerGegenFluglõrm' But why those particular encodings... weird. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list