CHIRP

Can you capture your chirp.config file and attach it here? Go to %APPDATA%\CHIRP in the filesystem and grab the chirp.config file.

Hi Michael, would you happen to use folders with CHIRP that include the following character in their name: ů ?

Dan Smith, looks like the config file is opened without a specific encoding in config.py, which would yield cp1252 on Windows.

    def save(self):
        cfg = os.path.join(self.__basepath, self.__name)
        with open(cfg, "w") as cfg_file:
            self.__config.write(cfg_file)

I am able to reproduce similar issues a few different ways:
1) use a RadioReference.com username containing ů
2) opening a csv file in a folder named ů

CP1252 seems unable to represent ů.

>>> '\u016f'.encode('cp1252')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "c:\Python310\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u016f' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>

looks like the config file is opened without a specific encoding in config.py, which would yield cp1252 on Windows.

Yep, that's why I wanted to see the config so I could try locally, but of course it was failing to write so it never ended up in the file. That config reading and writing predates python3 of course. I'll queue a fix.