KB:MySQL Workbench 8.0.42 does not support non-utf-8 encoding Windows systems.txt

KB:MySQL Workbench 8.0.42 does not support non-utf-8 encoding Windows systems

When you see the following pop-up window

Could not acquire management access for administration

RuntimeError: Target host is configured as Windows, but seems to be a different OS. Please review the connection settings.

or there is an error message in the log about os_utils.py indicating that the utf-8 encoding conversion failed, apply the following patch

edit C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 8.0\workbench\os_utils.py

add locale to imports
edit line
process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdin = subprocess.PIPE, encoding="utf-8", stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)

process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdin = subprocess.PIPE, encoding = locale.getencoding(), stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)