Can't host a game [SOLVED]

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Can't host a game

Postby newone » 28 Jan 2015, 10:57

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**FAF Username:** we

**FAF Version:** 0.10.122

**FAF Directory:** C:\ProgramData\FAForever

**FA Path:** E:\THQ\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance

**Home Directory:** D:\users\Documents

**Stacktrace:**
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "games\_gameswidget.pyc", line 666, in hostGameClicked
  File "games\hostgamewidget.pyc", line 89, in __init__
  File "fa\maps.pyc", line 170, in getDisplayName
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

}}}


when i chick open ticket system, the chinese internet wasn't work correctly, so what shall i do with the host game?
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Re: Can't host a game

Postby Sheeo » 29 Jan 2015, 10:17

Seems like you have a map with a (presumably) chinese display name, and the lobby is complaining about that.

If you temporarily remove the map, or rename it, it should be working again.

I'll make an issue for this on github so we can adress it for the next release of the client. Thanks :)
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Re: Can't host a game  [SOLVED]

Postby newone » 09 Feb 2015, 14:57

you're right, i just have a chinese map.rar but not a map,i rename it and the host work again ,thank you very much,
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