zim.exe not start on windows

Looks like there is an issue with chinese characters in folder names. In
this case specific when it tries to check default applications for the
config.

Can you file a bug report instead of a question ? Thanks.

Jaap

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, huliangxuan <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #151014 on Zim:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/zim/+question/151014
>
> click the zim.exe, and got the note-choice-page, then i click the enter,
> the app not start and no got any error log.
>
> I found C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
> Settings\Temp\zim.log:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "zim.py", line 56, in <module>
> File "zim\__init__.pyo", line 290, in main
> File "zim\gui\__init__.pyo", line 341, in __init__
> File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 175, in get_default_helper
> File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 237, in list_helpers
> File "zim\applications.pyo", line 70, in tryexec
> File "zim\applications.pyo", line 51, in _lookup
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 24:
> invalid continuation byte
>
> I used Procmon.exe got a log file,but it is too big.How can i show it?
>
>
> windows xp 32bit chinese.
>
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i deleted C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.config\zim\notebooks.list then created a new note(path: E:/notes/)
Still.the zim.exe not start.....

Jaap:

I will mail the log saved by Procmon.exe to u.

Jaap,thank you for your help.

i found "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.config\zim" lost two files "preferences.conf"and"accelmap".then copy them to here from another PC. Now ,zim.exe work well .............