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UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x96 in position 1300: invalid start byte make: *** [train-core] Error 1

post by mrawat on May 26, 2019

I am folIowing this tutorial: GitHub - RasaHQ/starter-pack-rasa-stack: 🎒Everything you need to build your first contextual chatbot with the open source Rasa Stack - includes files and training data

with updated nlu data and when i am running :make train-core, i am receiving below traceback when trying to train my rasa-core model

Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 193, in _run_module_as_main
“ main”, mod_spec) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py”, line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\train.py”, line 253, in
additional_args) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\train.py”, line 164, in do_default_training
kwargs=additional_arguments) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\train.py”, line 77, in train
policies=policies) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\agent.py”, line 218, in init
self.domain = self._create_domain(domain) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\agent.py”, line 667, in _create_domain
return Domain.load(domain) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\domain.py”, line 122, in load
return cls.from_yaml(read_file(filename)) File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\rasa_core\utils.py”, line 357, in read_file
return f.read() File “C:\Users\mrawat\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\codecs.py”, line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x96 in position 1300: invalid start byte make: *** [train-core] Error 1

Can someone help please?

post by JiteshGaikwad on May 26, 2019

hey @mrawat can you show your nlu data, might be there may be issue in your nlu.md file

post by lluchini on Mar 12, 2020

Check all files that you edited are with encoding UTF-8, I had this problem and was because the encoding was changed by the editor.

I used Notepad++ to convert back from ANSI to UTF-8 and worked normally again.