[GRASS-user] GUI problem

[Moritz Lennert]

On 31/03/18 17:43, Frank David wrote:
> Hi Mortiz,
> 
> Le 30/03/2018 à 15:07, Moritz Lennert a écrit :
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> On 30/03/18 11:23, Frank David wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've met a problem this morning on only one of my project. The map are
>>> displayed but I cannot do anything on GUI, no command message returned
>>> but the message below on GUI console >
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File
>>> "/usr/local/grass-7.4.0svn/gui/wxpython/gui_core/forms.py",
>>> line 836, in OnRun
>>>
>>> ret = self._gconsole.RunCmd(cmd, onDone=self.OnDone)
>>>    File
>>> "/usr/local/grass-7.4.0svn/gui/wxpython/core/gconsole.py",
>>> line 467, in RunCmd
>>>
>>> self.UpdateHistoryFile(' '.join(command))
>>>    File
>>> "/usr/local/grass-7.4.0svn/gui/wxpython/core/gconsole.py",
>>> line 748, in UpdateHistoryFile
>>>
>>> {'filePath': filePath, 'error': e},
>>> UnicodeDecodeError
>>> :
>>> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 32: ordinal
>>> not in range(128)
>>
>> This means that there is some issue with non-ASCII characters (in 
>> French it's often accents), either in a path or in an error message. 
>> This is a bug and it would be great if you could report it on the bug 
>> tacker [1].
>>
>> But in the meantime, in case the error comes from special characters 
>> in a French error message, you could switch the GUI to English and 
>> then relaunch it to see what the error message is. If the error is 
>> linked to special characters in a path, try to move everything into a 
>> pure ASCII path .
>>
>> Moritz
>>
>>
>> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/
>>
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I don't understand from where the accent could come,  because I do not 
> remember to have change anything on my project. I did not change path 
> name neither. Can you advice me where to find the problem ?

As I said, it can come from a translated message (the 'error' in the 
function call that causes the error), i.e. an error message that is 
normally in English, but someone translated it to French and it thus 
contains special characters. By changing the language of GRASS to 
English (in the GUI preferences) you should be able to do whatever you 
are trying to do and see the English error message.

Again, as I said, this is a bug and should be reported.

Moritz