Windows computer name with special character does not start server

[simracingstudio]

Hi,

If you have a computer name with a special character like: Nathanaêl

The start_server raises un utf8 error while invoking socket.getfqdn()

[dddomodossola]

@simracingstudio Can you please provide more information? It would be helpful to know the python version and the complete traceback. Please try with a newer python version

[dddomodossola]

@simracingstudio this is a python bug, here is the issue https://bugs.python.org/issue26227 . As you can see it is pending, still not released. Three possible workarounds:

• Use linux instead of Windows;
• Use python 3.5 (it was fixed in that release)
• Use a computer name with no 'special' characters.

I think that we will get a solution in the next python version ;-)