Unicode decode error.

[nonusx]

Debugging checklist

• [x] Have you updated to latest MFA version?
• [x] Have you tried rerunning the command with the --clean flag?

Describe the issue While I was running "mfa validate", I've encountered the error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 0: unexpected end of data.

For Reproducing your issue

1. Corpus structure
   • What language is the corpus in?
   • https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
   • How many files/speakers? 170, 000
   • Are you using lab files or TextGrid files for input? I was running mfa validate
2. Dictionary
   • Are you using a dictionary from MFA? If so, which one?
   • Yes.
3. Acoustic model
   • If you're using an acoustic model, is it one download through MFA? If so, which one? Yes.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows
• Version: Windows 11

[mmcauliffe]

Can you try calling:

set PYTHONUTF8=1

in the command line before running MFA and see if that resolves it? This is likely an issue with how the the windows command and python interface having issues with paths with unicode symbols in them. If that still doesn't fix it, can you run the command with --verbose and paste the full trace to see where the error is being thrown?