dr.racket - Dr Racket will not save any of my files. Has anyone had this error before or have any ideas?

Question

I have reinstalled Dr Racket including older versions. No matter what whenever I save I get this error: There was an error saving

bytes->string/locale: string is not a well-formed UTF-8 encoding string: #"pl373"

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65852964/dr-racket-will-not-save-any-of-my-files-has-anyone-had-this-error-before-or-hav

Answer 1

I think this is the same issue detailed at https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/3498. It's been fixed in the upcoming version. Meanwhile, you can delete the preference file (as detailed in the link above) to fix the issue for your installation.