UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 5439: character maps to <undefined>

[Moslem]

hi Jiba
I have below error when i use below UMLS version :
1- umls-2018AB-full.zip
2- umls-2019AA-full.zip

My error :
"
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 5439: character maps to
    <undefined> 
 "
can help me?
thanks a lot

[Jiba]

Hi,

This is an encoding problem. I fixed such a problem a few days ago in the development version of Owlready (on BitBucket), can you try it?

Jiba

[tomhemmes]

Hi Jiba,

I am really eager to start experimenting with Owlready, however I am experiencing the same issue.

Action:

1. pip install Owlready2

*Error*:

```
    ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-req-build-jtqujsqd/setup.py", line 28, in <module>
        version = open(os.path.join(HERE, "__init__.py")).read().split('VERSION = "', 1)[1].split('"', 1)[0]
      File "/home/tom/portaal/env/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 119: ordinal not
in range(128)
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-req-build-jtqujsqd/
```

*Attempts*:

I tried
- cloning "hg clone https://bitbucket.org/jibalamy/owlready2"
- "pip install ../owlready2"
- "pip3 install ../owlready2"

*Environment*:

Ubuntu Xenial 16.04
Python 3.6.5

*Temp fix*:

I fixed it for now by removing the VERSION retrieval from __init__.py. I do not see why you would use this construction anyways. If you ever need the version of the package you can just use `Owlready2.__version__`?

[moslem]

thanks a lot jiba for your answer.

[Jiba]

Hello,

Did you encounter the UnicodeDecodeError when trying to import UMLS data, or when installing Owlready 2?

If you want to import UMLS, please try with the development version on BitBucket, I fixed an encoding error recently.

If it is when installing Owlready, could you give me the entire error message (with the traceback) please?

Best regards,
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
MCF HDR, Laboratoire LIMICS, Université Paris 13