UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)

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Hi @gpgarcia,

Could you try running

export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
locale

Your .bash_profile is a file (which usually lives at ~/.bash_profile that controls the way your terminal initializes. You cna change things like the display label, the language, etc by changing it. The .bash_profile is a beast unto itself and almost everything Ive done to mine has come through StackOverflow, but, if you add

#Changes the locale
export LANG=en_US.utf-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

to your .bash_profile file, then it will set your locale automagically for you.

I have a second thought which might be around the way your data is encoded. Can you double check and see if, when you save your manifest file (which Im assuming you made in Excel?), you saved it as UTF-8 or latin1?

I found some instructions for saving as UTF-8 here, but I occasionally run into those encoding issues.
A couple general key things there are to make sure you don’t have letters that aren’t commonly english (ö,ø, ñ, å, etc; yes this is stupid and anglocentric but most of the early computer programing was done off a US keyboard.)

Best,
Justine

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