RomanM

this problem - UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

fix bug - edit file ….Houdini 13.0.222\python27\lib\mimetypes.py and

try:
ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
except UnicodeEncodeError:
pass

These lines in mimetypes should simply be removed.

Switch off Use Standalone Mode in License Administrator.

Should help

Excuse for my English