Render tool encounters UTFDataFormatExceptions

Error: Render (153): Exception parse error line: 1 column: 40 An exception occurred! Type:UTFDataFormatException, Message:invalid byte 2 (_) of a 2-byte sequence.

I get about 7 of these errors while trying to publish PDFs.

From reading here some people were having a similar error because they were using languages other than english but had a slightly different error(byte 2 (_) of a 3-byte sequence.).

Some people were having luck with a regex workaround(this isn't working for me).

I cant even find the offending cells from this error message.

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StephenF

Hi Thableaus,

I got 7 errors as this was the number of distinct strings in the field i was grouping on.

I just noticed my filename string I was creating use a special character É - this appears to be the source of the error/bug.

So on each file creation it had an error as it can't handle non-english language characters - how annoying.

Ill add this to the requests to fix things here - but this should really have already been documented at least.

Thx,

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Thableaus

Hi @StephenF

Could you please share a sample of your workflow? At least where this error occurs?

Surely there's something going on with encoding but a deeper analysis might be needed to check for data types, specific characters that might be the issue etc.

Cheers,

StephenF

Hi Thableaus,

I got 7 errors as this was the number of distinct strings in the field i was grouping on.

I just noticed my filename string I was creating use a special character É - this appears to be the source of the error/bug.

So on each file creation it had an error as it can't handle non-english language characters - how annoying.

Ill add this to the requests to fix things here - but this should really have already been documented at least.

Thx,

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