title: Error launching Spyder from Anaconda Navigator - "chcp 1252 ... 1>nul 2>nul"
body: <p>I am using Anaconda to conduct data analysis in Python using Spyder. I've been doing so with no trouble for while now, installing packages, updating packages/Spyder/etc., but after updating Spyder, I now receive an error message when launching Spyder from within Anaconda.</p>
  <pre><code>C:\Users\jdoe&gt;chcp 1252
  Active code page: 1252
  
  C:\Users\jdoe&gt;call C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3
  
  (base) C:\Users\jdoe&gt;spyder  1&gt;nul 2&gt;nul
  </code></pre>
  <p>This terminal window appears, then closes itself and Spyder along with it.</p>
  <p>If I open a terminal window from within Anaconda and type <code>spyder</code>, I am able to launch the app successfully. But launching from Anaconda Navigator fails, and I don't understand this error message or how to fix it, nor have I been able to find anything relating to this issue in searching. Any help understanding what is going on and how to correct this would be appreciated.</p>
  <p><code>conda info</code> report if useful:</p>
  <pre><code>(base) C:\Users\jdoe&gt;conda info
  
       active environment : base
      active env location : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3
              shell level : 1
         user config file : C:\Users\jdoe\.condarc
   populated config files : C:\Users\jdoe\.condarc
            conda version : 4.10.1
      conda-build version : 3.18.11
           python version : 3.8.3.final.0
         virtual packages : __win=0=0
                            __archspec=1=x86_64
         base environment : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3  (writable)
        conda av data dir : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\etc\conda
    conda av metadata url : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main
             channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
            package cache : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\pkgs
                            C:\Users\jdoe\.conda\pkgs
                            C:\Users\jdoe\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
         envs directories : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\envs
                            C:\Users\jdoe\.conda\envs
                            C:\Users\jdoe\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                 platform : win-64
               user-agent : conda/4.10.1 requests/2.25.1 CPython/3.8.3 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19041
            administrator : False
               netrc file : None
             offline mode : False
  </code></pre>