UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 84: ordinal not in range(128)

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Hi,

I’m having a little problem. When I run a simple playbook, on some servers I get a UnicodeEncodeError and the playbook is not executed.

I have the role “users_admin”, it creates 3 groups, makes sure that 4 users exist and have a specific password and set a root password if it has changed.

root@cm:/etc/ansible/roles/users_admin# tree
.
└── tasks
└── main.yml

1 directory, 1 file
root@cm:/etc/ansible/roles/users_admin# cat tasks/main.yml

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Can you try setting “module_lang = en_US.UTF-8” in your ansible.cfg to see if that corrects the issue?

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Hi James,

I have tried:

a) setting “module_lang = en_US.UTF-8” in ansible.cfg
b) editing /usr/share/pyshared/ansible/constants.py and changing:

DEFAULT_MODULE_LANG = get_config(p, DEFAULTS, ‘module_lang’, ‘ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG’, ‘C’)

to

DEFAULT_MODULE_LANG = get_config(p, DEFAULTS, ‘module_lang’, ‘ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG’, ‘en_US.UTF-8’)

In both cases the problem persists.

Any other ideas?

thanks!!

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Go ahead and open an issue on github for this, and we’ll dig into it deeper. If setting the module_lang doesn’t fix things, then the issue may not be on the client side.

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Hi James,

Before opening an issue, I have tried after updating to latest ansible version available and the problem is solved.

Should I still open a specific issue for the version I was using prior to upgrade?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,
Joel.

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No thank you, if it’s already fixed we are good to go.

(For such reasons it’s usually very useful to always indicate the ansible version when discussing a potential bug…)

Thanks!