[protext] Issues with ProTeXt Installation

[Thomas Feuerstack]

Hi,

while i never have seen this error before, i'm afraid i can't also give 
you the essential clue how to fix or come arround it. :-( Perhaps you 
can provide me with some additional information about your environment, 
i.e. which OS you use, and if you've probably have installed your own 
Python-compiler, which might run in difficulties with the one, shipped 
with ProTeXt.

To come to a running TeX-system beside of it, you might try to install 
the single parts of the system manually. You'll find the corresponding 
setup- and install-routines in the subdirs:

MiKTeX: for the TeX-engine, and

TeXstudio: for the editor.

Beside this, there are some installation instructions in Install and 
additional TeX-concerning documents in doc.

Hope this might help - Thomas

Am 08.11.2013 16:18, schrieb Doyeong Kim:
> Having only recently been introduced to the world of TeX and given an
> opportunity to try it out, I was naturally drawn to download ProTeXt as
> a convenient distributor. I have installed the self-extracting file
> which created a bunch of folders and a set-up file.
> Unfortunately, when I pressed setup.exe for installation I was
> confronted with an error message
>
> /See setup.exe.log for details/
>
> The file read
>
> /Traceback (most recent call last):/
> /  File "protext-setup.py", line 298, in <module>/
> /  File "protext-setup.py", line 97, in __init__/
> /  File "wx\_controls.pyc", line 494, in __init__/
> /UnicodeDecodeError: 'cp949' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-5:
> illegal multibyte sequence/
>
> So far the Internet haven't given me a clue on how to address this
> issue, and the error message to me is cryptic at best. (apart from the
> fact that it seems like something with Python...?) I don't think my
> computer is missing files, and so far those around me didn't seem to
> have such problems.
>
> If you have any ideas on how to tackle this problem please give me a reply.
> Help would be very much appreciated! :)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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