Crashed when character cannot encoded in meta inforation

[JeffreySu]

I have a set of .dcm with patient's Chinese name, I can read it out in other applications (even though some of them display messy code) ,but when I try to open it in dicompyler, it seems not supported to fault-tolerant the uncodified character.

When I use Open Quick to open just one .dcm it's OK, but when I use Open Patient, it crashed.

Information in Error window as following:

Platform information:
System: Windows
Version: ('post2008Server', '6.2.9200', '', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Python Version: 2.6.6
dicompyler Version: 0.4.2

dicompyler.dicomgui: DEBUG: Reading: E:\ct\lxj\143.dcm
dicompyler.dicomgui: DEBUG: Reading:E:\ct\lxj\144.dcm
dicompyler.dicomgui: DEBUG: Reading:E:\ct\lxj\145.dcm
dicompyler.dicomgui: DEBUG: Reading:E:\ct\lxj\146.dcm
dicompyler: ERROR: Unhandled exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 727, in Run
  File "threading.pyo", line 484, in run
  File "dicompyler\dicomgui.pyo", line 703, in GetPatientData
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 3-6: ordinal not in range(128)

[bastula]

Are you able to run the latest version from source to test if this has been resolved? If not, do you mind to send an anonymized DICOM file?

[shengyusideyouxi]

I met the same question. So how to deal with it....

[bastula]

@shengyusideyouxi In your post on the dicompyler group, the issue is actually with the folder name:D:\安装包\testdata2014\focus_output\SS.rtp1.12.20080627A.5.dcm If you are able to move the DICOM files to a non-Chinese folder name it will work. The other option is to run the program from source.