OpenAI API hits exception: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(256)

Question

I cloned your proj "Ask Wikipedia" and made one customization: set my own openai-key, but I always get an error message "OpenAI API hits exception: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(256)" when running it.

Answer 1

Abel Chiu Greetings!

"OpenAI API hits exception: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(256)"

Could you add more details about the model and programming language you are using?

Looks like there is an issue with the encoding of the characters in your openai-key. The error message suggests that the 'latin-1' codec is being used, which is not able to encode some of the characters in your key.

You can try encoding your openai-key using the 'utf-8' codec instead.

Please see Prepare your training and validation data for more details.

This should encode your key using the 'utf-8' codec, which should be able to handle a wider range of characters.

Let us know if this helps or if you have any other questions.