Unicode Encode Error

[Anna Hu]

Hi,

I'm running an experiment on heroku and pulling the data using psiturk. However, halfway through data collection, my psiturk started returning the error "EXCEPTION of type 'UnicodeEncodeError' occurred with message: ''ascii' codec can't encode character 'u2019' in position 29038: ordinal not in range(128)" when I use "download_datafiles."

I'm pretty certain this error arises from some type of participant input as I was able to use "download_datafiles" successfully on 2 batches of participants before it stopped working on the next batch, and I hadn't modified any code in between.

Does anyone know how I can fix this error? I want to pull the latest data from my experiment but am not able to do so because of this.

Also, not sure if this is a relevant detail, but I run psiturk on a Windows machine through a linux Docker container. 

Thanks!

[Dave Eargle]

Hmm. You could try the "programmatic" approach here, modifying it as necessary: https://psiturk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/retrieving.html

Or you could use some combination of heroku psql commands. Here's an example of copying a csv file into a psql table -- you'd change "\copy table_name FROM..." to "\copy table_name TO..."

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