{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1352","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1352/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1352/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1352/events","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1352","id":82536089,"number":1352,"title":"UnicodeDecodeError during package linking","user":{"login":"mmagnuski","id":8452354,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8452354?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski","html_url":"https://github.com/mmagnuski","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmagnuski/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-05-29T18:32:18Z","updated_at":"2015-05-29T20:16:20Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I got UnicodeDecodeError when I was updating with conda (happens around the time of package linking). The exception occurs in menuinst.\r\nThe operations have completed successfully however - the update package works well.\r\n\r\nJust in case, the whole story:\r\n```\r\nExtracting packages ...\r\n[      COMPLETE      ]|##################################################| 100%\r\nUnlinking packages ...\r\n[      COMPLETE      ]|##################################################| 100%\r\nLinking packages ...\r\nmenuinst Exception:Traceback (most recent call last):#                   |  62%\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\install.py\", line 319, in mk_menus\r\n    menuinst.install(join(prefix, f), remove, prefix)\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\menuinst\\__init__.py\", line 42, in install\r\n    ShortCut(m, sc, prefix=prefix).create()\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\menuinst\\win32.py\", line 127, in create\r\n    u'' + workdir,\r\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x9c in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)\r\nmenuinst Exception:Traceback (most recent call last):#############       |  87%\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\install.py\", line 319, in mk_menus\r\n    menuinst.install(join(prefix, f), remove, prefix)\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\menuinst\\__init__.py\", line 42, in install\r\n    ShortCut(m, sc, prefix=prefix).create()\r\n  File \"D:\\Python\\Anaconda\\lib\\site-packages\\menuinst\\win32.py\", line 127, in create\r\n    u'' + workdir,\r\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x9c in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)\r\n[      COMPLETE      ]|##################################################| 100%\r\n```\r\n\r\nI am on Python 2.7, Windows 8."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/comments/106924278","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1352#issuecomment-106924278","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1352","id":106924278,"user":{"login":"asmeurer","id":71486,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/71486?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer","html_url":"https://github.com/asmeurer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/asmeurer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-29T20:16:20Z","updated_at":"2015-05-29T20:16:20Z","body":"Looks like a bug in menuinst for Python 2. Does your username have any non-ASCII characters? "}}