gcloud crashed (UnicodeEncodeError): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

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Welcome to the Google Cloud SDK! Run "gcloud -h" to get the list of

available commands.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK>gcloud init Welcome! This command will take you through the configuration of gcloud.

Your current configuration has been set to: [default]

You can skip diagnostics next time by using the following flag:
gcloud init --skip-diagnostics

Network diagnostic detects and fixes local network connection issues. Checking network connection...done. Reachability Check passed. Network diagnostic (1/1 checks) passed.

ERROR: gcloud crashed (UnicodeEncodeError): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command: gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command: gcloud info --run-diagnostics

I don't know what to do... I just want to use the sdk but I can't init it...

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6 Answers

For me the fix was removing an accent ('é') from a folder in the path of my project. Hope it can help someone since I didn't find this solution after googling it for hours.

user_54679190

I kept getting this similar error every time I ran a gcloud command after a crash:

ERROR: gcloud crashed (UnicodeDecodeError): 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 1: invalid start byte

The solution was to delete this file:

~/.config/gcloud/gce

Don't ask me why that works or what that files does, I don't know (if you do, please let me know), but it gets recreated on the next command run and it fixed my issue.

user_54606370

In my case, it was a special character in the folders of the current directory. After changing the current directory, it worked!

user_129786100

As you’ve noticed that the error is due to a non-ASCII character in the username. As a workaround, you can set the CLOUDSDK_CONFIG environment variable to a path that contains only ASCII characters.

user_82134640
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