funannotate: RNA free annotation UnicodeDecodeError

I am trying to do an annottion without RNA-seq evidence and am running into some issues.

Version funannotate v1.8.3

*Input’ funannotate predict -i $input -o $outdir --species $species --busco_seed_species $buscoSpecies -d $database --cpus 5

The error

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[03:00 PM]: OS: CentOS Linux 7, 40 cores, ~ 198 GB RAM. Python: 3.6.10
[03:00 PM]: Running funannotate v1.8.3
[03:00 PM]: Skipping CodingQuarry as no --rna_bam passed
[03:00 PM]: Parsed training data, run ab-initio gene predictors as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/bin/funannotate", line 713, in <module>
    main()
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/bin/funannotate", line 703, in main
    mod.main(arguments)
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/funannotate/predict.py", line 572, in main
    augustus_version, augustus_functional = lib.checkAugustusFunc()
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/funannotate/library.py", line 1039, in checkAugustusFunc
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True).communicate()
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 850, in communicate
    stdout = self.stdout.read()
  File "/services/tools/funannotate/1.8.3/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 80: ordinal not in range(128)