[protext] Problem installing proText

[Thomas Feuerstack]

Dear Pablo,

the reported error looks very strange. I can't remember, that i've heard 
about it before. For this, i would be thankful, if you could tell me

- the complete name of the ProTeXt-Zip-File

- if possible, the name of the server you've downloaded it from

- the complete designation of your Windows-Operating-System. You should 
find this information in your Windows "System Control".

Concerning to this, i feel afraid that i don't have a solution for you, 
but i can point you to a workarround to install a running TeX-System.

After having unzipped the ProTeXt-Zip-File on your system, you will find 
the subdirectories "MiKTeX" and "TeXStudio" which contain the 
standalone-setups for the single routines (and which are invoked by 
ProTeXt's Setup). In detail

- setup-2.9.6942.exe in MiKTeX\setup and
- texstudio-2.12.14-win-qt5.exe in TeXStudio

will do the job for you. Be aware, that you should install MiKTeX first! 
(so that the TeXstudio will find the executables during its own 
installation).

Good luck, and regards - Thomas

Am 18.11.2019 um 13:50 schrieb Corral Arroyo  Pablo:
> 
>   Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> 
>   This is Pablo Corral Arroyo, from ETH Zurich. I am trying to install 
> proTeXt but the next message shows up in the log when I try to run the 
> instalation:
> 
> 
> 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: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 4: 
> ordinal not in range(128)
> 
>   I would be greatful if you could tell me how to solve this problem.
> 
>   Best regards,
>   Pablo
> 
> 
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