# Slicer fails to start after adding a scripted module

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-fails-to-start-after-adding-a-scripted-module/6807>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-fails-to-start-after-adding-a-scripted-module/6807 "2019-05-15T20:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![batuhan\_edguer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/batuhan_edguer/32/3517_2.png) [@batuhan\_edguer](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/batuhan_edguer)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-fails-to-start-after-adding-a-scripted-module/6807/1 "2019-05-15T20:02:06Z")

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Hello I’m getting this error, tried to reinstall but it did not…

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “D:\Program Files\Slicer 4.10.1\bin\Python\slicer\ScriptedLoadableModule.py”, line 202, in onReloadAndTest  
self.onReload()  
File “D:\Program Files\Slicer 4.10.1\bin\Python\slicer\ScriptedLoadableModule.py”, line 195, in onReload  
slicer.util.reloadScriptedModule(self.moduleName)  
File “D:\Program Files\Slicer 4.10.1\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 623, in reloadScriptedModule  
moduleName, fp, filePath, (’.py’, ‘r’, imp.PY\_SOURCE))  
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xf6’ in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)  
Reload and Test: Exception!

‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xf6’ in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

See Python Console for Stack Trace

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-fails-to-start-after-adding-a-scripted-module/6807/2 "2019-05-15T20:06:40Z")

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It would help if you described what you tried to do when you got this error.

Also if this was a crash then python errors probably won’t be conclusive, but a full log might help.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![batuhan\_edguer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/batuhan_edguer/32/3517_2.png) [@batuhan\_edguer](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/batuhan_edguer)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-fails-to-start-after-adding-a-scripted-module/6807/3 "2019-05-15T20:08:24Z")

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I solved. I used the “ö” for folder name. The system does not recognize the “ö”.