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I have done it many times (clipping a raster with a polygon layer or by extension) but today I got an error for the first time and I don't know how to solve it. I am always using the same type of raster layers. When running the clipping tool I got the following message:

gdal_translate -of GTiff -ot Byte -projwin 410282.185971 4694950.41162 410783.882475 4694524.96815 -co COMPRESS=DEFLATE -co PREDICTOR=1 -co ZLEVEL=6 -co TFW=YES "C:/Users/FERRAN ALA/Desktop/Justificació Fontanals/QGIS/Topo 1_5000/bt5mv20sd0f283077st1r031.sid" "C:/Users/FERRAN ALA/Desktop/Justificació Fontanals/QGIS/background/image.tif"

GDAL command output:

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 201: ordinal not in range(128) See log for more details

Does anybody know what that is?

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    You should not use characters with accent mark (typical of catalan) and spaces in your paths. Probably, it is the source of your issues.
    – xunilk
    Jan 9, 2019 at 19:00
  • Please, see this link referred to unicode xf3 character: codetable.net/hex/f3
    – xunilk
    Jan 9, 2019 at 19:04
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    Hello, thank you for that information. I removed all accents and it worked perfectly. Thanks!
    – Ferran
    Jan 10, 2019 at 8:49

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User xunilk nailed it: the error message is saying that the unicode character xf3 (which is the ó from Justificació) could not be encoded (i.e. altered from unicode to a string).

As you already figured out, remove such type of characters (with accent marks) from file paths and file names. Remove the spaces as well:

gdal_translate -of GTiff -ot Byte -projwin 410282.185971 4694950.41162 410783.882475 4694524.96815 -co COMPRESS=DEFLATE -co PREDICTOR=1 -co ZLEVEL=6 -co TFW=YES "C:/Users/FERRAN_ALA/Desktop/Justificacio_Fontanals/QGIS/Topo_1_5000/bt5mv20sd0f283077st1r031.sid" "C:/Users/FERRAN_ALA/Desktop/Justificaci0_Fontanals/QGIS/background/image.tif"
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    C'mon, we're not in the 90's anymore. So GDAL will never know how to use UTF-8? Who they think they are? Microsoft?!!
    – Rodrigo
    Jul 15, 2021 at 22:57
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Maybe you use the Chinese characters, I had this problem before. And after deleting the file with Chinese characters, it run successful.

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## import this

conn.set_client_encoding('UTF8')

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