I tried to use Nsight Compute on Korean Windows 10. but Error message “lookup error unknown encoding cp949” was shown in the CLI. so I tried change windows system locale to Unicode(cp65001; beta on windows10) from Koren(cp949). and then the Error message is changed to “lookup error unknown encodi…

Nsight Compute won't run on non-english windows

Sanjiv.Satoor July 25, 2022, 6:34am 5

Can you please confirm that you are using Nsight Systems?
Note that the original issue was reported for Nsight Compute.

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