compose: UnicodeDecodeError when executing docker-compose up

when running docker-compose up This error happens:

  File "bin/docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 68, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 121, in perform_command
  File "contextlib.py", line 35, in __exit__
  File "compose/cli/errors.py", line 53, in handle_connection_errors
  File "compose/cli/errors.py", line 118, in get_conn_error_message
  File "distutils/spawn.py", line 220, in find_executable
  File "posixpath.py", line 73, in join
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Failed to execute script docker-compose

Versions : docker-compose version 1.17.1, build 6d101fb Docker version 17.09.0-ce, build afdb6d4

On Ubuntu 16.04.3

locale

LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 15 (1 by maintainers)

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Looks like your .env file isn’t encoded properly. Please make sure you’re using utf-8 encoding.

+37

shin- on Jan 21, 2018

Be aware, you powershell users, creating a new file usually results in UTF-16+BOM.

Generally speaking, windows 10 does usually create UTF16+BOM files plain as Textfiles. Commandline, API calls.

BananaAcid on Oct 12, 2018

我也有同样的问题，是因为 .dockerignore文件中包含中文 I have the same problem because the. dockerignore file contains Chinese.

swzyt on Jun 27, 2019

Looks like your .env file isn’t encoded properly. Please make sure you’re using utf-8 encoding.

What worked for me was creating an empty .env file in the directory I run docker-compose in (encoded as UTF-8).

koell09 on Feb 7, 2020