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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 438: ordinal not in range(128)

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Hello, I’m having an issue when trying to call SpellChecker in other languages. English work fine, but all the other throws the following error.

from spellchecker import SpellChecker
spell = SpellChecker('es')

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc3 in position 438: ordinal not in range(128)

Any idea of what’s going on and how can i solve it?

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marchezinixdcommented, Nov 5, 2018

The problem was that python3 encode and decode were set for ascii. I changed the Python3 variables, and everything worked fine. Thanks for the support. We can close this.

For anyone with the same problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44344458/why-does-locale-getpreferredencoding-return-ansi-x3-4-1968-instead-of-utf-8 https://perlgeek.de/en/article/set-up-a-clean-utf8-environment

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barrustcommented, Nov 5, 2018

That is great information! Thanks!

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