# UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xa0' in position 84: ordinal not in range(128) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 12, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215 "2014-05-12T19:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joel\_Sdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@Joel\_Sdc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joel_Sdc)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/1 "2014-05-12T19:30:28Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/2 "2014-05-12T21:16:12Z")
Can you try setting “module\_lang = en\_US.UTF-8” in your ansible.cfg to see if that corrects the issue? ---
**Author:** ![Joel\_Sdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@Joel\_Sdc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joel_Sdc)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/3 "2014-05-13T11:41:25Z")
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!! ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/4 "2014-05-13T12:33:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Joel\_Sdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@Joel\_Sdc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joel_Sdc)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/5 "2014-05-14T08:33:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-84-ordinal-not-in-range-128/15215/6 "2014-05-14T12:24:17Z")
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!