UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001f916' in position 17: character maps to <undefined>

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Hello, I started using rasa, and I encountered this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “c:\users\hp\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 193, in run_module_as_main “main”, mod_spec) File “c:\users\hp\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 85, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa-IOvxCmim\Scripts\rasa.exe_main_.py", line 7, in File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\rasa_main_.py”, line 116, in main cmdline_arguments.func(cmdline_arguments) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\rasa\cli\scaffold.py”, line 183, in run print_success(“Welcome to Rasa! \U0001f916\n”) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\rasa\shared\utils\cli.py”, line 21, in print_success print_color(*args, color=rasa.shared.utils.io.bcolors.OKGREEN) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\rasa\shared\utils\cli.py”, line 15, in print_color print(output, file=stream) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py”, line 41, in write self.convertor.write(text) File "c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py", line 162, in write self.write_and_convert(text) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py”, line 187, in write_and_convert self.write_plain_text(text, cursor, start) File “c:\users\hp.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py”, line 195, in write_plain_text self.wrapped.write(text[start:end]) File “c:\users\hp\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py”, line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\U0001f916’ in position 17: character maps to

when i run:

  • rasa init

i tried to use:

  • –skip-visualization
  • PYTHONIOENCODING='utf8' rasa init

  • export PYTHONPATH=path_to_project_dir:$PYTHONPATH

but without result.

Some informations:

  • Rasa Version : 2.0.2
  • Rasa SDK Version : 2.1.2

  • Rasa X Version   : 0.33.2

  • Python Version   : 3.7.9

  • Operating System : Windows-10

  • vertuelenv: pipenv

  • Python Path      : c:\users\hp\.virtualenvs\rasa__-iovxcmim\scripts\python.exe
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Hi Zouhair,

the Unicode error seems to pop up when we print the robot emoji icon. It shouldn’t cause an error.

Just to check, could you try running this in a python REPL?

print("\U0001f916")

You should see a robot emoji. If you get an error then we might have ourselves a hint of what might be going wrong.

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Here the result of this issue: File “test.py”, line 1, in print("\U0001f916") File “C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py”, line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\U0001f916’ in position 0: character maps to

Any ways to correct it?