UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 9: invalid continuation byte

[PPaircas]

Description of the problem

import pygmt
pygmt.show_versions()

PyGMT information:
version: v0.12.0
System information:
python: 3.12.3 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Apr 15 2024, 18:20:11) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
executable: d:\Program Files\Anaconda\envs\pygmt\python.exe
machine: Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0
Dependency information:
numpy: 1.26.4
pandas: 2.2.2
xarray: 2024.5.0
netCDF4: 1.6.5
packaging: 24.0
contextily: None
geopandas: None
ipython: None
rioxarray: None
ghostscript: 10.03.1
GMT library information:
binary version: 6.5.0
cores: 8
grid layout: rows
image layout:
library path: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/bin/gmt.dll
padding: 2
plugin dir: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/bin/gmt_plugins
share dir: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/share/gmt
version: 6.5.0PyGMT information:
version: v0.12.0
System information:
python: 3.12.3 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Apr 15 2024, 18:20:11) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
executable: d:\Program Files\Anaconda\envs\pygmt\python.exe
machine: Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0
Dependency information:
numpy: 1.26.4
pandas: 2.2.2
xarray: 2024.5.0
netCDF4: 1.6.5
packaging: 24.0
contextily: None
geopandas: None
ipython: None
rioxarray: None
ghostscript: 10.03.1
GMT library information:
binary version: 6.5.0
cores: 8
grid layout: rows
image layout:
library path: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/bin/gmt.dll
padding: 2
plugin dir: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/bin/gmt_plugins
share dir: D:/Program Files/Anaconda/envs/pygmt/Library/share/gmt
version: 6.5.0

grid = pygmt.datasets.load_earth_relief(resolution="01d")

"name": "UnicodeDecodeError",
"message": "'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 9: invalid continuation byte",
"stack": "---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 9: invalid continuation byte

System information

UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[12], line 1
----> 1 grid = pygmt.datasets.load_earth_relief(resolution=\"01d\",data_source=\"gebco\")

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\helpers\\decorators.py:773, in kwargs_to_strings.<locals>.converter.<locals>.new_module(*args, **kwargs)
    770             bound.arguments[\"kwargs\"][arg] = newvalue
    772 # Execute the original function and return its output
--> 773 return module_func(*bound.args, **bound.kwargs)

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\datasets\\earth_relief.py:168, in load_earth_relief(resolution, region, registration, data_source, use_srtm)
    166     case \"gebco\" | \"gebcosi\":
    167         name = \"earth_gebco\"
--> 168 grid = _load_remote_dataset(
    169     name=name,
    170     prefix=prefix,
    171     resolution=resolution,
    172     region=region,
    173     registration=registration,
    174 )
    175 return grid

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\helpers\\decorators.py:773, in kwargs_to_strings.<locals>.converter.<locals>.new_module(*args, **kwargs)
    770             bound.arguments[\"kwargs\"][arg] = newvalue
    772 # Execute the original function and return its output
--> 773 return module_func(*bound.args, **bound.kwargs)

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\datasets\\load_remote_dataset.py:421, in _load_remote_dataset(name, prefix, resolution, region, registration)
    418         grid = lib.virtualfile_to_raster(outgrid=None, vfname=voutgrd)
    420 # Full path to the grid if not tiled grids.
--> 421 source = which(fname, download=\"a\") if not resinfo.tiled else None
    422 # Manually add source to xarray.DataArray encoding to make the GMT accessors work.
    423 if source:

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\helpers\\decorators.py:609, in use_alias.<locals>.alias_decorator.<locals>.new_module(*args, **kwargs)
    603     msg = (
    604         \"Parameters 'Y' and 'yshift' are no longer supported since v0.12.0. \"
    605         \"Use Figure.shift_origin(yshift=...) instead.\"
    606     )
    607     raise GMTInvalidInput(msg)
--> 609 return module_func(*args, **kwargs)

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\src\\which.py:66, in which(fname, **kwargs)
     61     with lib.virtualfile_out(kind=\"dataset\") as vouttbl:
     62         lib.call_module(
     63             module=\"which\",
     64             args=build_arg_list(kwargs, infile=fname, outfile=vouttbl),
     65         )
---> 66         paths = lib.virtualfile_to_dataset(vfname=vouttbl, output_type=\"strings\")
     68 match paths.size:
     69     case 0:

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\clib\\session.py:1950, in Session.virtualfile_to_dataset(self, vfname, output_type, header, column_names, dtype, index_col)
   1947 result = self.read_virtualfile(vfname, kind=\"dataset\").contents
   1949 if output_type == \"strings\":  # strings output
-> 1950     return result.to_strings()
   1952 result = result.to_dataframe(
   1953     header=header, column_names=column_names, dtype=dtype, index_col=index_col
   1954 )
   1955 if output_type == \"numpy\":  # numpy.ndarray output

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygmt\\datatypes\\dataset.py:171, in _GMT_DATASET.to_strings(self)
    169     warnings.warn(msg, category=RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=1)
    170     textvector = [item if item is not None else b\"\" for item in textvector]
--> 171 return np.char.decode(textvector) if textvector else np.array([], dtype=str)

File d:\\Program Files\\Anaconda\\envs\\pygmt\\Lib\\site-packages\
umpy\\core\\defchararray.py:615, in decode(a, encoding, errors)
    572 @array_function_dispatch(_code_dispatcher)
    573 def decode(a, encoding=None, errors=None):
    574     r\"\"\"
    575     Calls ``bytes.decode`` element-wise.
    576 
   (...)
    612 
    613     \"\"\"
    614     return _to_bytes_or_str_array(
--> 615         _vec_string(a, object_, 'decode', _clean_args(encoding, errors)))

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 9: invalid continuation byte"

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[seisman]

What's the output if you run the GMT command gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g in terminal?

[seisman]

Also please post the output of the following script:

import pygmt
pygmt.which("@earth_relief_01d_g", download="a", verbose="d")

[PPaircas]

What's the output if you run the GMT command gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g in terminal?

gmtwhich [ERROR]: No files specified

[PPaircas]

Also please post the output of the following script:

import pygmt
pygmt.which("@earth_relief_01d_g", download="a", verbose="d")

[seisman]

What's the output if you run the GMT command gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g in terminal?

gmtwhich [ERROR]: No files specified

This doesn't make sense. What about the following command?

gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g -Vd

[PPaircas]

What's the output if you run the GMT command gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g in terminal?

gmtwhich [ERROR]: No files specified

This doesn't make sense. What about the following command?

gmt which -Ga @earth_relief_01d_g -Vd

[seisman]

I see the issue. Your Windows account name contains Chinese characters, but GMT lacks support for paths with non-ASCII characters.

[seisman]

Actually GMT works well with non-ASCII paths on macOS, but on Windows, I'm unsure what's happening.

[PPaircas]

Actually GMT works well with non-ASCII paths on macOS, but on Windows, I'm unsure what's happening.

Thanks a lot.