RESCRIPT dereplicate uniq mode UnicodeEncodeError

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @rhlampe ,

This error is indicating that you need to set another language encoding, as the default that you are using (latin-1) cannot encode some special characters (in the citations specifically! So nothing to do with RESCRIPt itself). See this topic for troubleshooting steps:

Plugin error from diversity: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u03b2' (...)

Hey @efratm! I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone with the latin-1 encoding (which is weird as it used to be a super common standard). There’s not necessarily any bad characters here, rather latin-1 just cannot express some symbols. What strikes me as odd is that QIIME 2 is attempting to use latin-1 at all. It looks like perhaps we did not specify utf-8 (which can encode all characters) to our bibtex library, and so it must be using a default? Where it is getting that default is l…

(you can also search the forum for "codec can't encode character" to see quite a few similar topics)

Good luck!