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Re: can't get windows version to start

 

Just a guess: The 15th character mentioned by the error is exactly the
position of the "a ring" in the language name. So the string to find
should probably include "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway", not only the
a-ring.

:)

Marco


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem
<svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26 April 2017 at 10:13, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Checking a test case I realized that the path to the translation itself does
>> not have unicode: it is just "locale/.../nb.mo" for Norwegian.
>>
>> So unicode character must be in the installation path of zim - can you share
>> the installation folder ?
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Zim Desktop Wiki>
>
> I do not use 'å' (aring) in my paths to zim or zim workbooks. This
> must be something which is picked up from somewhere else on my
> computer. It is a corporate installation of Windows
>
> There may be some norwegian characters inside the zim workbook itself,
> but the default zim workbook is an all-english one.
>
> Where does zim store its configuration on windows? I should probably
> look inside those files in case there is old cruft.
>
> Thanks for your efforts.
>
> --
> Svenn


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