@loboere Thanks for reporting the issue and thanks for using Colab. Can you provide a minimal reproducible notebook?

I got the same error .... any solution to this yet?

the commands triggered this error for me

!pip install youtube-dl
!youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8TgCZ0plk -f 22 -o video.mp4
!ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -t 00:00:06 -c:v copy video-clip.mp4

I faced the same exception in pyannote.

I solved it by overriding locale.getpreferredencoding:

import locale
locale.getpreferredencoding = lambda: "UTF-8"

Here is a notebook with the workaround.

Update: While many people have found this workaround helpful, it is important to note that it should be regarded as a temporary solution and not considered a permanent fix.

@karray this solution works for me. Thanks a lot

Thanks!

I also get this error randomly, If i have to guess its after alot of outputs that been written to the output screen

@karray this worked for me as well! Thanks!

In my opinion, this issue shouldn't be closed yet. While the workaround offered may serve as a temporary solution, it doesn't actually address the underlying problem.

I agree with @karray This is not fixed and should be reopened. Encountered it just now myself.