# How can i start psychopy?

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-can-i-start-psychopy/16184>\
**Category:** Builder\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-can-i-start-psychopy/16184 "2020-09-03T05:19:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CYHan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@CYHan](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/CYHan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-can-i-start-psychopy/16184/1 "2020-09-03T05:19:33Z")

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If this template helps then use it. If not then just delete and start from scratch.

**OS** (e.g. Win10): win10  
**PsychoPy version** (e.g. 1.84.x): 2020.2.3  
**Standard Standalone? (y/n)** If not then what?:yes  
**What are you trying to achieve?:** starting program

**What did you try to make it work?:** chage a region of my computer, try all troubleshooting manual in installation and i wrote topic in forum but anyone have not replied it.

**What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:** it is just not working to start  
Include pasted full error message if possible. “That didn’t work” is not enough information.

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\Lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\psychopyApp.py”, line 104, in   
main()  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\Lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\psychopyApp.py”, line 100, in main  
start\_app()  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\Lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\psychopyApp.py”, line 28, in start\_app  
app = PsychoPyApp(0, showSplash=showSplash)  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\_psychopyApp.py”, line 226, in **init**  
self.onInit(testMode=testMode, \*\*kwargs)  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\_psychopyApp.py”, line 416, in onInit  
logging.flush()  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\logging.py”, line 300, in flush  
logger.flush()  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\logging.py”, line 286, in flush  
target.write(formatted[thisEntry] + ‘\n’)  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\logging.py”, line 206, in write  
stream.write(txt)  
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\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 68-73: character maps to

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**Author:** ![TParsons](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/tparsons/32/8301_2.png) [@TParsons](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/TParsons)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-can-i-start-psychopy/16184/2 "2020-09-03T15:03:04Z")

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Definitely looks like you were on the right lines changing to different regions on your computer, it looks like it is attempting to print to the console but can’t find the character codes for some letters. What regions did you try?

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**Author:** ![CYHan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@CYHan](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/CYHan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-can-i-start-psychopy/16184/3 "2020-09-03T16:22:44Z")

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Hello, Thanks for replying.

I live in S.Korea, but for experiment environment, I use computer in English(USA). Should I change the region for Korea?