Latin characters causes Mecab spawning to crash on windows

[Kirmassine]

Good morning, This is my first time installing Ankimorph. I tried to modify the settings from the tools tab, but I am given this error message:

line 139, in spawn_mecab "^bos-feature: (.*)$", str(config_dump, "utf-8"), flags=re.M UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xee in position 122: invalid continuation byte

I'm on Windows 11, with Anki version 2.1.50-23.12.1 and the latest Ankimorphs update.

[mortii]

@Kirmassine Thanks for letting me know!

When exactly does the error occur? When you click the 'save' button?

[Kirmassine]

This happens when I press the settings button, in the tools tab. I can't even reach the settings window.

[mortii]

@Kirmassine very weird.

Acoording to this site to It looks like byte 0xee is the character î.

The path to the add-on is this on windows:

Windows: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\[profile_name]

What are the names of your [user] and [profile_name] folders? Do they contain latin characters or some other non-utf8 characters by chance?

[Kirmassine]

My name is Benoît, with an î. If I understand correctly, then this would be a problem due to my name?

[mortii]

My name is Benoît, with an î. If I understand correctly, then this would be a problem due to my name?

Yes. Maybe I can fix it to accept latin characters as well, but I'm not sure if that is possible without making characters from other languages break instead. I'll look into it.

[mortii]

@Kirmassine trying to fix this bug is truly a nightmare since testing it requires a lot of setup.

Could you do me a favor and do the following:

1. Open up a command prompt and write: chcp
2. Take a screenshot of the command prompt and upload it here

Thanks!

[Kirmassine]

I don't know much about computers (and I'm bad in english), so I don't know if that's what you're asking. If not, sorry and can you elaborate more on what you want? I absolutely don't mind helping you :)

[mortii]

@Kirmassine perfect picture, thank you :+1:

It says C:\Users\TEMP, is that the user you are using Anki on? I expected to see C:\Users\Benoît. Knowing the exact username would help me debug the problem better.

[Kirmassine]

I don't give the same username than before, because I was trying to change it. It didn't work too well at first, but I solved all my problems. The addon works now, just by changing the î to i.

My old username was "C:\Users\lastname Benoît". Since it had my last name, I don't want to give it. But I can tell that there were only alphabetic latin characters, without any particular diacritic (no è, é, ï, î etc.).

[mortii]

I don't give the same username than before, because I was trying to change it. It didn't work too well at first, but I solved all my problems. The addon works now, just by changing the î to i.

@Kirmassine I'm glad you made it work!

My old username was "C:\Users\lastname Benoît". Since it had my last name, I don't want to give it. But I can tell that there were only alphabetic latin characters, without any particular diacritic (no è, é, ï, î etc.).

Ah, I see, completely understandable. Thanks for clarifying and giving me the info I wanted. I'm going to try fixing this bug so people don't have to change their username, but this bug is very specific and very complicated (surprisingly), so it might take a while.

[Kirmassine]

Good luck and thank you for this wonderful addon !