Are there known issues with 8.1 (non-English release)?

Santabot

Hello all,

I came via Giantbomb where I listened to an interview with the maker of depression quest.
I wanted to try out Twine and I think I get the basic idea but when I try to build a story with 1.4 if just gives me the old
"an error occured while building your story ('ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128))."

I am working on a German windows 8.1.
Any ideas? I dont use any strange Umlauts etc.
I cannot even test play TWS files I downloaded that are made by other people and that should work as they are in English.

I would really appreciate some help as I am dying to get started...

Best regards

Nikolaus

Santabot

I used the bluntest work around ever by installing a virtual copy of an English Win XP as a virtual PC in Win 8.1.
Now it works!
See, its as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Sharpe

Take a look at this thread: http://twinery.org/forum/index.php/topic,1046.0.html

Santabot

Thank you.
I am not sure if it applies though.
If I load up a tws from somebody else it should work as I dont edit or change it at all.
Everything works in the US version of win XP in the virtual machine so I can write for now.

mth

Check this thread, it is about an issue that sounds very similar with a Swedish version of Windows. There is a problem where the Windows version of Python will output a localized name for the time zone and if that name contains non-ASCII characters, an error occurs. That issue has been fixed in git already, so it should no longer occur in the next release.

Santabot

Thanks!
I did read that first but I did not get that the date was inserted automatically.
I will wait for the next release and try again.