UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode...

[etienne-v]

(Should have posted this for HIDE instead of SEEK)

Running HIDE I encountered this error:

$ hide --strategy-start=2017-01-01-00:00:00 --strategy-end=2017-01-05-00:00:00 --verbose=True hide.config.bleien7m
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/u/zazz00r5/.local/bin/hide", line 12, in
load_entry_point('hide==0.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'hide')()
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ivy/cli/main.py", line 28, in run
_main(*sys.argv[1:])
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ivy/cli/main.py", line 37, in _main
mgr.launch()
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ivy/workflow_manager.py", line 107, in launch
executor.run(ctx().params.plugins)
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ivy/backend.py", line 48, in run
return map(LoopWrapper(loop), mapPlugin.getWorkload())
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ivy/backend.py", line 129, in call
plugin()
File "/u/zazz00r5/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hide-0.1.0-py2.7.egg/hide/plugins/load_beam_profile.py", line 55, in call
beam_profiles, beam_norms = mod.load_beam_profile(beam_spec, frequencies, self.ctx.params)
File "/u/zazz00r5/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hide-0.1.0-py2.7.egg/hide/beam/airy.py", line 43, in load_beam_profile
gain_sun = np.genfromtxt(path, skip_header=True)
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py", line 1707, in genfromtxt
next(fhd)
File "/u/zazz00r5/anaconda3/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/encodings/ascii.py", line 27, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 22: ordinal not in range(128)

Tried the solutions suggested here and here without luck. Any suggestions?