Error with imported weather file

[lilseigo]

Describe the bug
There is an error when we run the radiation script with our imported weather file. Hardware: CEA 3.32.0 and windows 10. The Weather file is in the Zip file

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create any case study
2. import weather epw
3. Run the radiation script with the default parameters
4. error appears

Errorcode:

City Energy Analyst version 3.32.0
Running cea radiation with the following parameters:

• general:scenario = C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test
  (default: {general:project}{general:scenario-name})
• general:multiprocessing = True
  (default: True)
• general:number-of-cpus-to-keep-free = 1
  (default: 1)
• general:debug = False
  (default: False)
• radiation:buildings = ['B1001', 'B1002']
  (default: [])
• radiation:use-latest-daysim-binaries = True
  (default: True)
• radiation:albedo = 0.2
  (default: 0.2)
• radiation:roof-grid = 10
  (default: 10)
• radiation:walls-grid = 200
  (default: 200)
• radiation:zone-geometry = 2
  (default: 2)
• radiation:surrounding-geometry = 5
  (default: 5)
• radiation:consider-floors = True
  (default: True)
• radiation:consider-intersections = False
  (default: False)
• radiation:rad-ab = 4
  (default: 4)
• radiation:rad-ad = 512
  (default: 512)
• radiation:rad-as = 32
  (default: 32)
• radiation:rad-ar = 20
  (default: 20)
• radiation:rad-aa = 0.15
  (default: 0.15)
• radiation:rad-lr = 8
  (default: 8)
• radiation:rad-st = 0.5
  (default: 0.5)
• radiation:rad-sj = 0.7
  (default: 0.7)
• radiation:rad-lw = 0.05
  (default: 0.05)
• radiation:rad-dj = 0.7
  (default: 0.7)
• radiation:rad-ds = 0.0
  (default: 0.0)
• radiation:rad-dr = 0
  (default: 0)
• radiation:rad-dp = 32
  (default: 32)
• radiation:daysim-bin-directory = C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Daysim
  (default: C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst)
• radiation:n-buildings-in-chunk = 100
  (default: 100)
• radiation:write-sensor-data = True
  (default: True)
  Using Daysim binaries from path: c:\users\domin\documents\cityenergyanalyst\dependencies\python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\bin\win32\bin64
  Using Daysim data from path: c:\users\domin\documents\cityenergyanalyst\dependencies\python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\bin\win32\lib
  verifying geometry files
  zone: C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\building-geometry\zone.shp
  surroundings: C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\building-geometry\surroundings.shp
  Getting geometry materials
  Creating 3D geometry and surfaces
  Saving geometry pickle files in: C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpot_dyj5_\test_radiation_geometry_pickle
  Standardizing coordinate systems
  Reading terrain geometry
  Creating 3D building surfaces
  Calculating terrain intersection of building geometries
  Using 7 CPU's
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 1 completed out of 2
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 2 completed out of 2
  Using 7 CPU's
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 1 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 2 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 3 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 4 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 5 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 6 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 7 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 8 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 9 completed out of 10
  Calculation of terrain intersection for building 10 completed out of 10
  Generating geometry for surrounding buildings
  Generating geometry for buildings in the zone of analysis
  Using 7 CPU's
  Generating geometry for building 1 completed out of 2Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\worker.py", line 146, in worker
  run_job(config, job, server)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\worker.py", line 108, in run_job
  script(config=config, **parameters)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\api.py", line 60, in call
  self._runner.call(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\api.py", line 38, in script_runner
  script_module.main(config)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\radiation_main.py", line 286, in main
  radiation_singleprocessing(cea_daysim, zone_building_names, locator, config.radiation, geometry_pickle_dir,
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\radiation_main.py", line 62, in radiation_singleprocessing
  weatherfile = epwreader.epw_reader(weather_path)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\utilities\epwreader.py", line 39, in epw_reader
  epw_data = epw_to_dataframe(weather_path)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\utilities\epwreader.py", line 34, in epw_to_dataframe
  df = pd.read_csv(weather_path, skiprows=8, header=None, names=epw_labels).drop('datasource', axis=1)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\util_decorators.py", line 211, in wrapper
  return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\util_decorators.py", line 331, in wrapper
  return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 950, in read_csv
  return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 605, in _read
  parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 1442, in init
  self._engine = self._make_engine(f, self.engine)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 1753, in _make_engine
  return mapping[engine](f, **self.options)
  File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\c_parser_wrapper.py", line 79, in init
  self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
  File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 547, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.cinit
  File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 737, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header
  File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 852, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows
  File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1965, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 1258: invalid start byte

Generating geometry for building 2 completed out of 2
Creating radiance material file
Creating radiance geometry file
Converting files for DAYSIM
Transforming weather files to daysim format
Running command epw2wea "C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\weather\weather.epw" "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpot_dyj5_\cea_radiation\common_inputs\weather_60min.wea"
Transforming radiance files to daysim format
Running command radfiles2daysim "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpot_dyj5_\cea_radiation\common_inputs\rad2daysim.hea" -g -m -d

DEU_NW_Essen_104100_TRY2035_05_Wint_BBSR.zip

[ShiZhongming]

@lilseigo
We suspect that it could be your files contain umlaut, (i.e. ä, ö, ü).
Similar errors occurred in the team before because of Chinese characters.

[ShiZhongming]

@lilseigo
We have just fixed this issue and updated the master branch.
I have tested the weather file that you provided and it is working on the master branch.
Are you using the CEA developer's version? If so, please just fetch the updated master. #3364