Oh, man! Thanks for this! Was stuck with the Principal First Meet game crash! At least I could progress now.
I had the same issue and did what you said and now i cant event open the game
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While parsing C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc/game/tl/english/EventIncEsc.rpy.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xbf in position 493: invalid start byte
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 313, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\main.py", line 369, in main
renpy.game.script.load_script() # sets renpy.game.script.
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\script.py", line 266, in load_script
self.load_appropriate_file(".rpyc", ".rpy", dir, fn, initcode)
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\script.py", line 742, in load_appropriate_file
data, stmts = self.load_file(dir, fn + source)
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\script.py", line 563, in load_file
stmts = renpy.parser.parse(fullfn)
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\parser.py", line 2756, in parse
lines = list_logical_lines(fn, filedata, linenumber)
File "C:\Users\tamir\Downloads\BastardGirlsR-1.1-pc\renpy\parser.py", line 214, in list_logical_lines
data = f.read().decode("utf-8")
File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xbf in position 493: invalid start byte
Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.2.2.491
Fri Aug 02 10:59:13 2019