Honeybee eneregy: open studio cannot work

[Jack]

1. Solution exception:Failed to write in.bat to file:
   ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u5317’ in position 112: ordinal not in range(128)

it seems that the file i install the open studio is“ASCII” code but it still no working

[Jack]

And I have opened the “UTF-8”

[chris]

We just recently added full support for non-ASCII characters. If you upgrade to the latest development version of the plugin by running the LB Versioner and installing OpenStudio 3.4, you should be able to avoid this issue.

[Jack]

i already installed openstudio 3.4 and run the LB Versioner,but it stil didn’t work

[AbrahamYezioro]

Check in your workflow that there is no name with non-ascii characters. For instance your model name, or constructions, etc.
-A.

[Jack]

it seems that Open Studio is still 1.4.0, but i already run the LB Versioner to update my LB

[Jack]

i have checked my workflow for many times, it only has english and number.But it still don’t work

[chris]

Hey @Jack ,

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I can say for sure that the character causing the issue is this one:

north; northern; northward (U+5317)

And a quick test on my end has revealed that your Model is probably not the issue since I don’t have any issues simulating a Model with this character in the name:

This leads me to believe that the problem is likely that this character appears in your EPW file path. I will try to push a fix for this now and, in the meantime, if you can confirm that this character is in the EPW path, that would be really helpful.

[Jack]

THANK YOU SO MUCH！！！I changed the folder where the epw file is located and it works.

[chris]

Yep, this was definitely the issue. I was able to recreate it by pasting that “North” character into the EPW file path:

I just pushed a fix for this case so that it will work without having to rename the EPW:

fix(run): Ensure support for Non-ASCII characters in EPW file path