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I am on macos and when I open the game (0.3.2) the game immediately crashes with an exception:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While parsing /private/var/folders/b3/6wdzzgqj7rb8w1nmsndgyzwr0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/C008DC81-E10B-4E4A-A538-30B8960D358A/d/StudioHearts.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/common/._000atl.rpy.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 37: invalid start byte

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 376, in bootstrap

    renpy.main.main()

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "renpy/main.py", line 435, in main

    renpy.game.script.load_script()  # sets renpy.game.script.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^                           

  File "renpy/script.py", line 421, in load_script

    self.load_appropriate_file(".rpyc", ["_ren.py", ".rpy"], dir, fn, initcode)

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "renpy/script.py", line 1011, in load_appropriate_file

    data, stmts = self.load_file(dir, fn + source)

                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "renpy/script.py", line 800, in load_file

    stmts = renpy.parser.parse(fullfn)

            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^

  File "renpy/parser.py", line 1675, in parse

    lines = list_logical_lines(fn, filedata, linenumber)

            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "renpy/lexer.py", line 350, in list_logical_lines

    data = data_io.read()

           ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 37: invalid start byte

macOS-26.5.1-arm64-arm-64bit arm64

Ren'Py 8.4.1.25072401

Thu Jun 25 11:37:55 2026