Unicode decode error

[chanapple]

If I run the webuUI,

Launching Web UI with arguments: --listen
Error loading script: potrace.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\chana\Documents\A.I\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\scripts.py", line 66, in load_scripts
text = file.read()
File "C:\Users\chana\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 2: invalid start byte

Spit out an error like the above. In the middle of solving it, I even reached the reinstallation of the python, but there was no solution, so I'm posting

[littlelionel]

Having the same issue. I'm quite new to all this but I think it's caused by the txt2vectorgfx script as this downloads potrace.exe to the scripts folder which then causes the webui to try to load the exe as a script.

Removing potrace.exe from the scripts folder seems to fix this 🙂

[GeorgLegato]

yes, the script loader just loads "" -everything placed in "scripts" folder.
Best fix, but "intrusiv" to automatic1111, would be to tell the script loader only to filter on ".py" files.
But, this is a new PR and will be discussed...

In the end, it is not an real error, "potrace,exe" will just not be loaded as a script. other should do.

Other solution:

• create a folder "bin" in scripts and put potrace there
• change the variable inside of the custom script to expect potrace in "bin"