Here\'s my code for opening Chrome:
from selenium import webdriver driver=webdriver.Chrome(\'C:\\\\Users\\\\Im
Setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 before executing my script works for me. See this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=1552#c43
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
In Python:
import os os.environ["LANG"] = "en_US.UTF-8"