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A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, which did work for me:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines in my case.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")

A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, which did work for me:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines in my case.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")

A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, which did work for me:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines in my case.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")

A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, which did work for me:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines in my case.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")

A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following. I tried a solution proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, did work:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")

A solution that I found over on Stackoverflow was the following proposed here for a UnicodeDecodingError, which did work for me:

(setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.UTF-8")
(setenv "LC_CTYPE" "en_US.UTF-8")

I only actually required the first of the three lines in my case.

Further suggestions specific to Python are in this post, namely to add this to your .emacs init file:

(setenv "PYTHONIOENCODING" "utf-8")