From 463840d2b76193de249a07bfb0c871d2032e327a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Bonnici Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 09:59:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs/faq: Add question about non UTF-8 environments. --- doc/source/faq.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/faq.rst b/doc/source/faq.rst index a5e945d2..b9f531f0 100644 --- a/doc/source/faq.rst +++ b/doc/source/faq.rst @@ -114,3 +114,10 @@ parameter and will be picked up be the ``fps`` augmentation. mismatch of your WA and devlib versions. Please update both to their latest versions and delete your ``$USER_HOME/.workload_automation/cache/targets.json`` (or equivalent) file. + +**Q:** I get an error which looks similar to ``UnicodeDecodeError('ascii' codec can't decode byte...`` +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +**A:** If you receive this error or a similar warning about your environment, +please ensure that you configure your environment to use a locale which supports +UTF-8. Otherwise this can cause issues when attempting to parse files containing +none ascii characters.