Error stopping the experiment from running

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Hello,

An error warning shows on the screen when I attempt to run the experiment,

Please check the details below:

“Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 1206, in runFile

self.app.runner.panel.runLocal(event)

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\runner\runner.py”, line 729, in runLocal

procStarted = self.runFile(

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\runner\scriptProcess.py”, line 122, in runFile

stdOut.write(runMsg)

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\console.py”, line 112, in write

self.broadcast(text=text)

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\console.py”, line 139, in broadcast

lf.write(text)

File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy\lib\encodings\cp1252.py”, line 19, in encode

return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode characters in position 42-44: character maps to ”

Please provide me with a solution as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Najat.

2

Do you have a “smart quote” where you should have a "dumb quote"?

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all quotes used are dumb quotes.

5

Are you using any non-Latin characters?

6

I removed all non-Latin characters and still cannot run the experiment.

7

However, I noticed non-Latin characters in the location of the saved file. Do these have impact?
And how can I change them?

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That’s the folder your experiment is saved in. I’d recommend renaming it

9

This is the “desktop” but I am not sure why is it written in other than English. Although English is chosen as the main language for this laptop all the settings of the laptop are in English.

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10

I recommend creating a new folder in your documents folder, copying the experiment files to it and trying again.

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I did that. Unfortunately, when it comes to the location of the folder it types in other than English characters.

Although when I open the laptop’s documents or desktop I find them written in English characters.

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Thank you so much for helping me detect the problem.

I tried to save the file in Drive (C). Fortunately., it saved it in English characters and I was able to run the experiment.

Thanks a million.

Yet, I am still not sure why is it changing the desktop’s name when I save it there. Although the Window’s language in the settings is English.