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[1.46] UnicodeDecodeError on Windows 7

See original GitHub issue

See the stacktrace:

[~] cd Work/friends/simon                                                                   
cd:cd:13: no such file or directory: Work/friends/simon
[~] fuck  
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "C:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\thefuck.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "C:\python27\lib\site-packages\thefuck\main.py", line 129, in main
    command = get_command(settings, sys.argv)
  File "C:\python27\lib\site-packages\thefuck\main.py", line 86, in get_command
    result.stderr.read().decode('utf-8'))
  File "C:\python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8a in position 15: invalid start byte

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scorphuscommented, May 31, 2016

Hi, I’ll try and reproduce this error as soon as I get the chance. Thanks for reporting it. Em 31/05/2016 00:20, “Wensheng Tang” notifications@github.com escreveu:

I’ve also encounter this issue. The first time running this command will freeze forever.

P.S. Using latest Git for Windows 2.8.3

$ fuck Traceback (most recent call last): File “d:\python27\lib\runpy.py”, line 162, in run_module_as_main “main”, fname, loader, pkg_name) File “d:\python27\lib\runpy.py”, line 72, in run_code exec code in run_globals File "D:\Python27\Scripts\thefuck.exe__main.py", line 9, in <module> File “d:\python27\lib\site-packages\thefuck\main.py”, line 80, in main fix_command() File “d:\python27\lib\site-packages\thefuck\main.py”, line 26, in fix_command command = types.Command.from_raw_script(sys.argv[1:]) File “d:\python27\lib\site-packages\thefuck\types.py”, line 120, in from_raw_script stderr = result.stderr.read().decode(‘utf-8’) File “d:\python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py”, line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xb2 in position 9: invalid start byte

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scorphuscommented, Jul 29, 2021

Fixed in c2df71caed917ea659a72a393b105881ec0709df