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Hello. I have been trying to install Wyre Bash v296 in order to work with Oblivion (I have Shivering Isles installed and the Shivering Isles update installed also) for the last 2 or 3 hours and can not seem to get it working.

So far this is what i have done:
1. Python25 installed (on C: drive)
2. Wyre Bash installed (inside my oblivion folder on D: drive)

When I run D:\Játékok\oblivion\Mopy\wyre bash.exe i get the following message:

Error! Unable to start Wrye Bash.

Please ensure Wrye Bash is correctly installed.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bash\bash.pyo", line 362, in main
File "bash\bosh.pyo", line 31092, in initBosh
File "bash\bosh.pyo", line 30894, in initDirs
File "bash\bosh.pyo", line 6218, in __init__
File "bash\bapi.pyo", line 58, in Init
File "ctypes\__init__.pyo", line 365, in __init__
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

I have reviewed various websites and tried to navigate a few forums but without success. Can someone more familiar with Wyre Bash guide me to a topic that already addresses this specific issue or, if that's not available, could someone simply walk me through how to resolve this issue? Thanks a lot everyone for your help and time.

(p.s., I wasn't sure if it matter that python and wyre are installed on different drives---thus I included that in the above info)

Try having them both, Python and Wrye Bash, on the same drive. And, oftentimes games / programs have problems if they aren't in C drive, or if the CD / DVD drive isn't named D, when you play the game from a disk.

I'm not an expert, but it seems like parts that rely on each other can't find the necessary counterpart. Thus, the re-orientation?