# Docker launcher fails with message «/pups/lib/pups/cli.rb:15:in \`split': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII» then container \*.yml file contains non-ASCII symbols

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**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [5월 25, 2015, 4:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-launcher-fails-with-message-pups-lib-pups-cli-rb-15-in-split-invalid-byte-sequence-in-us-ascii-then-container-yml-file-contains-non-ascii-symbols/29224 "2015-05-25T16:37:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [6월 9, 2015, 8:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-launcher-fails-with-message-pups-lib-pups-cli-rb-15-in-split-invalid-byte-sequence-in-us-ascii-then-container-yml-file-contains-non-ascii-symbols/29224/3 "2015-06-09T20:13:11Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I would not force encoding, instead amend launcher to pass the utf text.

How exactly to go about this?

Someone had an “é” in their hostname earlier today and the same error came up.

I tried changing a few settings within the yaml file to france, but same error occurred.

Which setting to change, and where?

I tried to change:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/9/9/499696fd2b4c005e0c7ca1632ee9ced8b02c373c.png)  
from .english to france

and

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/c/9/7c999c05ab8eaa6eb880f6affda1aaf9d36da9c4.png)  
to fr\_FR.UTF-8

separately and in combination.

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