UTF-8 encoding error when opening files in DrRacket on Windows 10

[breanndan....@gmail.com]

I have two students who just installed DrRacket on Windows 10 and get this error when they try to open files:

bytes->string/locale: string is not a well-formed UTF-8 encoding 

string: #"\340lU\1"

Has anyone else encountered this?

[Robby Findler]

We have had one other report yes. It looks like something is going wrong with the open file dialog. It may be possible to open files by double clicking on them to sidestep the bug I am not sure. 

Sorry about this. 

Robby

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[breanndan....@gmail.com]

Thanks Robby. We'll experiment with that. 

Any  idea if it's just the current version fo DrRacket? We could have them try installing the previous version for the time being.

[Robby Findler]

I know only that we didn't get the report with earlier versions.

BTW, if one click on the dialog that has the error message, there should be a "copy" option that will let you get some potentially valuable debugging information. If it is easy to get a student who is having the problem to do that, it may be helpful to report it back.

Robby

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[breanndan....@gmail.com]

A student reports the error on versions 7.8, 7.7 and also 7.4 and says that he doesn't get any more debugging information.