VScode platformIO compiler error

[richard-ubi]

Hi friends！ VScode platformIO compile the following error, previously was successful, I hope that a friend can guide the correction method, thank you PACKAGES: toolchain-xtensa32 2.50200.80 (5.2.0), framework-arduinoespressif32 2.10004.191002 (1.0.4), tool-esptoolpy 1.20600.0 (2.6.0) UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\xbf' in position 40285: illegal multibyte sequence: File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\main.py", line 126: env.SConscript("$BUILD_SCRIPT") File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\packages\tool-scons\script\..\engine\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", line 605: return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\packages\tool-scons\script\..\engine\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", line 286: exec(compile(scriptdata, scriptname, 'exec'), call_stack[-1].globals) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\platforms\espressif32\builder\main.py", line 209: target_elf = env.BuildProgram() File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\packages\tool-scons\script\..\engine\SCons\Environment.py", line 224: return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\platformio.py", line 110: env.BuildFrameworks(env.get("PIOFRAMEWORK")) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\packages\tool-scons\script\..\engine\SCons\Environment.py", line 224: return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\platformio.py", line 288: env.ConvertInoToCpp() File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\packages\tool-scons\script\..\engine\SCons\Environment.py", line 224: return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\piomisc.py", line 198: out_file = c.convert(ino_nodes) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\piomisc.py", line 57: return self.process(contents) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\piomisc.py", line 80: assert self._gcc_preprocess(contents, out_file) File "C:\Users\Administrator\.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\platformio\builder\tools\piomisc.py", line 90: fp.write(contents)

[fmuntean]

having the same issue. found this: https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266/issues/175

[JackGruber]

Hi,

change the platformio.ini

From:

platform = espressif8266

to

platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266.git

this use the upstream version of espressif8266 and with this the error is gone.

[richard-ubi]

OK, thx, I solved the problem by reinstalling and configuring python