[Biopython-dev] Python 3.4 - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3

[Tiago Antao]

On Thu, 1 May 2014 15:45:05 +0100
Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> How did you manipulate the machine's locale, and what was it
> before you set it to utf-8? i.e. How can we reproduce this error.

This is the starting point:
https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/locale.html#locale.getdefaultlocale

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
('en_GB', 'UTF-8')


If you set LC_ALL with something that is not utf-8 (say us ascii, maybe)
related you should be able to replicate this. You will want getlocale()
to NOT report utf-8 before running the test.

in my case I had this default:
('', '')

But I suspect anything that is not utf-8 compatible should do.

Tiago