Ensure UTF-8 codepage on prey install (Error 1603) #222
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PR created in order to fix the issue #58
Several users reported errors during Prey installation on Windows, most of them with local language beyond latin alphabet. The error can be seen in the prey-install-log:
The proposed solution is to change the default codepage during the installation process to '65001' (UTF-8). After this fix in the prey-install.log:
And finally installation process works properly.