# UnicodeDecodeError

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/unicodedecodeerror/7356
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/unicodedecodeerror/7356 "2018-12-09T21:18:35Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/unicodedecodeerror/7356/2 "2018-12-10T14:30:10Z")

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Hi @Acetylcholine88,  
Your post is a duplicate of this:

> [@UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0x8b in position 513](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-can-t-decode-byte-0x8b-in-position-513/5712):
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> Hi slight_smile so excitingly, my manifest file now works, however I'm getting this error upon import: qiime tools import --type 'SampleData[PairedEndSequencesWithQuality]' --input-path manifest.txt --output-path ../paired-end-demux.qza --source-format PairedEndFastqManifestPhred33 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/abganz/.conda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/q2cli/tools.py", line 116, in import\_data view\_type=source\_format) File "/home/abganz/.conda/envs/qiime2/lib/…

Please check out that thread (and the links in there) to troubleshoot — let us know if that does not sort out the problem! If so, please also post the full error message (run your command with the `--verbose` flag to see the full error) and post the exact command you are attempting to run.

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