Bug#806257: Message when entering into some modules in Grass GIS GUI : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

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Hi Etienne,

On 25-11-15 22:27, Etienne MAHE wrote:
> After launching Grass GUI, and when I try to enter into some modules, I get
> the following message : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8:
> ordinal not in range(128). The problem is that I have not imported raster
> or vector maps. I don't know if the problem comes from linguistic packages.
> Anyways, the problem seems to concern Python language but I am not expert
> in python.

This seems to be a known issue upstream:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2727

Can you confirm that you're using a non-en_US locale, and that you're
experiencing the same issue as reported upstream?

Kind Regards,

Bas

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