# RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/runtimeerror-click-will-abort-further-execution-because-python-3-was-configured-to-use-ascii-as-encoding-for-the-environment/7460
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**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/runtimeerror-click-will-abort-further-execution-because-python-3-was-configured-to-use-ascii-as-encoding-for-the-environment/7460 "2018-12-14T12:03:16Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/chriskeefe/32/1907_2.png) [@ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/ChrisKeefe)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/runtimeerror-click-will-abort-further-execution-because-python-3-was-configured-to-use-ascii-as-encoding-for-the-environment/7460/10 "2018-12-26T17:30:35Z")

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@JIM. Is this a centOS system?  
The Click documentation referenced in your error message mentions that

> `On some systems it was reported that UTF-8 has to be written as UTF8 and vice versa. `

Try `export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8`  
If that doesn't work, try `export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8`

Sorry this is taking so long to work out!  
🤔🙏😓  
Chris

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