'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0645' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[mshakirDr]

I am trying to run Urdu training data (using Noori Nastaleeq font) but make training urd results in the following:

python generate_line_box.py -i "data/ground-truth/longJameel_Noori_NastaleeqRegular1610.tif" -t "data/ground-truth/longJameel_Noori_NastaleeqRegular1610.gt.txt" > "data/ground-truth/longJameel_Noori_NastaleeqRegular1610.box"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "generate_line_box.py", line 41, in <module>
    print(u"%s %d %d %d %d 0" % (prev_char, 0, 0, width, height))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0645' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Makefile:111: recipe for target 'data/ground-truth/longJameel_Noori_NastaleeqRegular1610.box' failed

I have attached the problematic line image with .gt.txt. The files are generated on Windows uisng GDI and .net and imported to Linux. Putting urd.traineddata beforehand doesn't help as well. output.zip

[mshakirDr]

Paste the following at the start of generate_line_box.py. File editing won't work in Linux Subsystem for Windows (Permission denied error). Virtual machine or a Linux Machine is the solution.

# encoding=utf8
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')