UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xbe in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

[shivanikush]

I am getting the above error please help!

[Anubhav2000]

Are you running this project on python3?

[Ariesirius]

@shivanikush I also met this problem. Have you solved it? Thank you very much!

[shivanikush]

@Anubhav2000 no i was running it on python 2.7 @Ariesirius no i am not able to solve it, working on it!

[jakub-tomczak]

@shivanikush @Ariesirius try to use fixes from this pull request https://github.com/hanzhanggit/StackGAN-v2/pull/25/files#diff-21b1187eae0dce5aa8a3d0997b08d976L264 . I'm using python3.7 and the fix implemented there worked for me.

[furukawayuan-Yao]

I think that you can try to add 'encoding='UTF-8' to some sentence , for example:

• with open(cap_path, "r", encoding='utf8') as f:
• captions = f.read().encode('utf8').decode('utf8').split('\n')

I solve the same problem by this way.