Dear Richard,
Thanks for your kind reply! I copied the error message and pasted it
below. I must say that I am novice on qgis. Any help you may be able to
provide will be greatly appreciated.
* Please use my gmail address when you send an email.
Regards,
Alex
this is a typical Python unicode issue. Which affects people using non
western character sets... (and probably will not show up when installed
on english/western computers).
So please:
- sent us either a screendump of the full error
- or try to copy the list of files shown there
as that will reveal which python file exactly is misbehaving.
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 9-11:
ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
333, in startPlugin
plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)
File
"C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\MetaSearch\__init__.py",
line 29, in classFactory
from MetaSearch.plugin import MetaSearchPlugin
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\MetaSearch\plugin.py",
line 33, in
from MetaSearch.dialogs.maindialog import MetaSearchDialog
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\MetaSearch\dialogs\maindialog.py",
line 43, in
from owslib.csw import CatalogueServiceWeb
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\owslib\csw.py",
line 27, in
from owslib.util import OrderedDict
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\owslib\util.py",
line 35, in
import requests
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\__init__.py",
line 52, in
from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\contrib\pyopenssl.py",
line 47, in
from cryptography import x509
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\x509\__init__.py",
line 8, in
from cryptography.x509.base import (
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\x509\base.py",
line 14, in
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import dsa, ec, rsa
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\hazmat\primitives\asymmetric\rsa.py",
line 14, in
from cryptography.hazmat.backends.interfaces import RSABackend
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\hazmat\backends\__init__.py",
line 7, in
import pkg_resources
File "C:/PROGRA~2/QGIS2~1.18/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line
607, in _import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py",
line 2900, in
@_call_aside
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py",
line 2886, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py",
line 2913, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py",
line 633, in _build_master
ws = cls()
File
"C:\PROGRA~2\QGIS2~1.18\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py",
line 626, in __init__
self.add_entry(entry)
File
