Can't encode transcription

[Genet Gessessew]

I am new to tesseract and I have tried to train a Tesseract model for Amharic language

 

and it never stops when it starts like this

Can't encode transcription: 'ህ' in language '' Encoding of string failed! Failure bytes: ffffffe1 ffffff8d ffffffad

anybody aware of this problem and how can I fine tune amh.traineddata? I have followed this tutorial GitHub - livezingy/tesstrain-win: Train Tesseract LSTM with make on Windows

[Des Bw]

I am also training for Amharic. 

I am pretty sure you are using Windows OS. I had exactly the same problem with it. It think it is contingent with Unicode. But, I was not able to solve the issue. I now installed Ubuntu on the side; and everything works fine. 

[Des Bw]

Are you planning to fine tune for a specific font, or want to improve the overall accuracy of the best model?