UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 70813: ordinal not in range(128)

[timonweb]

I get the error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 70813: ordinal not in range(128)

every time I try to run any JS code via dukpy.babel_compile

Here's an example snippet:

dukpy.babel_compile("var o = {'value': 5}; o['value'] += 7; o")

Env: Python 3.4 with virtualenv

[webknjaz]

@timonweb try setting any UTF-8 aware locale using environment variables.

[amol-]

Problem is caused by the fact that the babel compiler is UTF8 javascript, so when dukpy tries to read the compiler to run it it will receive utf8 data, but Python3.X decodes data according to the system locale.

Your system locale is probably ascii ("C"?) so Python is trying to decode the babel source code as plain ascii and failing.

I hope to fix this for next release as it's also a requirement for windows systems

[amol-]

This should have been fixed in 0.2.0 release.