UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

This FAQ applies to: Any version.

Problems with non-ASCII characters.

Please create/edit sitecustomize.py and add the following line of code:

sys.setdefaultencoding('utf_8')

sitecustomize.py is located in:

Linux	<%InstallDir%>/lib/python2.5, where <%InstallDir%> is MGLTools' installation directory
Mac OS X	/Library/MGLTools/lib/python2.5
Windows	C:\Python25\Lib

by Sargis Dallakyan — last modified 2007-12-26 10:55 Molecular Graphics Laboratory, TSRI

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