incompatible character encoding error

Sorcerer Stone

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Dec 3, 2019, 12:13:42 PM12/3/19

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I am using Win10 with HyperV disabled & with all the latest updates. Using Vagrant to test run some simple projects. No problems (in running docker, compose, etc in Vagrant).

I uninstalled Vagrant, VirtualBox and all related folders in Windows and reinstalled Vagrant & VirtualBox again. But suddenly, I ran into unicode problem.

Background:

After re-installing Vagrant (+ Virtualbox) and rebooted the OS, I ran this command to install docker compose:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-docker-compose

It returned a list of errors relating to unicode

Installing the 'vagrant-docker-compose' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:852:in `[]=': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:852:in `sender'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:525:in `block in fetch_resource'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1133:in `block (3 levels) in resolv'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1131:in `each'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1131:in `block (2 levels) in resolv'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1130:in `each'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1130:in `block in resolv'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1128:in `each'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:1128:in `resolv'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:520:in `fetch_resource'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:510:in `each_resource'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/resolv.rb:491:in `getresource'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:105:in `api_endpoint'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/source.rb:47:in `api_uri'
        from C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/mingw64/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/source.rb:183:in `load_specs'
....

What I did to try to resolve this problem:
I followed the instructions from here: https://github.com/xyteam/xyPlatform

Near the end of the article, there is a trouble shooting section. 2nd last entries on this section deals with the problem I ran into. So I edited and saved line 784 in resolv.rb as described in this article. aka

replace request[0,2] = [id].pack('n') to request[0,2] = [id].pack('U')

I rebooted the system. Ran the above command.
I still have the same character encoding error.

Can someone please advise what other steps I need to take to fix this error?

What might have suddenly prompted this error?

I had since then uninstalled and reinstalled both Vagrant & Virtualbox (latest available versions). Same result.

Thanks in advance.

Sorcerer Stone

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Dec 3, 2019, 12:54:33 PM12/3/19

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One more thing - to eliminate from what might have caused the encoding problem mentioned above.

I don't have special characters in my username or in my Vagrant's HashiCorp's directory path (in fact, no special characters assigned by me in my Windows system)

Sorcerer Stone

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Dec 3, 2019, 1:45:11 PM12/3/19

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Problem resolved.

It is this file resolv.rb that caused the encoding problem.

There are 3 entries in this file that need to manually reset to unicode. I thought there was only 1 line - where the error code said.