# Plugin error from rescript dereplicate

**URL:** <https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Tags:** rescript\
**Created:** [October 23, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027 "2023-10-23T05:12:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![elizabeck](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/elizabeck/32/16933_2.png) [@elizabeck](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/elizabeck)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/1 "2023-10-23T05:12:23Z")

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Hi!  
I´ve been getting the followind error when running the "qiime rescript dereplicate" in qiime2 v 2023.9:

Plugin error from rescript:

'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u0161' in position 2871: ordinal not in range(256)

See above for debug info.

can anybody help me, please! 😅

Thanks 😛

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**Author:** ![jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jphagen/32/17133_2.png) [@jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jphagen)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/2 "2023-10-23T16:17:33Z")

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**Author:** ![jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jphagen/32/17133_2.png) [@jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jphagen)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/3 "2023-10-23T16:25:24Z")

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Hi @elizabeck!

If you search the forum for this "latin-1" error there are a few hits that should be helpful to you in resolving this error.  
[This one](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-diversity-latin-1-codec-cant-encode-character-u03b2/11779/1) looks like a good place to start!  
Let me know if none of the previous answers to this question are able to help you and we will figure out what to do next 🙂

-Hannah

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**Author:** ![jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jphagen/32/17133_2.png) [@jphagen](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jphagen)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/4 "2023-10-23T16:25:29Z")

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**Author:** ![elizabeck](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/elizabeck/32/16933_2.png) [@elizabeck](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/elizabeck)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/5 "2023-10-24T18:39:09Z")

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Hi Hanna,  
The command  
LC\_ALL=en\_US.UTF-8  
really help me, and it solve the issue.

Many many thaks! 🤓 👾

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/1/21af5fe23cb6f4579467c66a9ed94e55274ca7bd.svg) [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/plugin-error-from-rescript-dereplicate/28027/6 "2023-11-25T00:40:04Z")

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