# 1. Solution exception:'ascii' codec can't encode character '\\u17C' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

**URL:** <https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/1-solution-exception-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u17c-in-position-14-ordinal-not-in-range-128/16917>\
**Category:** ladybug\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/1-solution-exception-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u17c-in-position-14-ordinal-not-in-range-128/16917 "2021-12-15T21:25:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@tim](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/tim)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/1-solution-exception-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u17c-in-position-14-ordinal-not-in-range-128/16917/1 "2021-12-15T21:25:38Z")

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**I have an installation issue:**  
Step 1 works well. In step 2, when toggling True, after some successful steps, the component returns an error.  
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0. Installing Ladybug Tools core Python libraries.

1. Installing lbt-dragonfly==0.8.105 via pip using  
C:\Users\Użytkownik\ladybug\_tools\python\python.exe

2. Ladybug Tools core Python libraries successfully installed!

3. Installing Ladybug Tools recipes.

4. Installing lbt-recipes==0.17.10 via pip using  
C:\Users\Użytkownik\ladybug\_tools\python\python.exe

5. Ladybug Tools recipes successfully installed!

6. Installing ladybug-rhino Python library.

7. Installing ladybug-rhino==1.31.3 via pip using  
C:\Users\Użytkownik\ladybug\_tools\python\python.exe

8. Ladybug-rhino Python library successfully installed!

9. Successfully set Python search path to: C:\Users\Użytkownik\ladybug\_tools\python\Lib\site-packages

10. Runtime error (EncoderFallbackException): ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u17C’ in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback:  
line 311, in write\_iron\_python\_batch\_file, “”  
line 505, in script

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Thank you in advance for your reply.

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**Author:** ![chris](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/user_avatar/discourse.ladybug.tools/chris/32/10179_2.png) [@chris](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/chris)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/1-solution-exception-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u17c-in-position-14-ordinal-not-in-range-128/16917/2 "2021-12-16T21:20:52Z")

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See here:

> [@Installing error](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/installing-error/16853):
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> how to resolve the installing error——ascii’ codec can’t encode character . \u5C0F’ in position 13: ordinal not in range (128)

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**Author:** ![tim](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@tim](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/u/tim)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/1-solution-exception-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u17c-in-position-14-ordinal-not-in-range-128/16917/3 "2021-12-20T10:15:55Z")

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The problem ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u17C’ in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) still exists