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Admin FAQ entry for UnicodeEncodeError
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@ -142,6 +142,25 @@ Make sure you have the PostgreSQL extensions "hstore" and "postgis" installed.
See the installation instructions for a full list of required packages.
### UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
Make sure that the operating system's locale is UTF-8. With some prebuilt
images (e.g. LXC containers from Proxmox, see
[discussion](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions/2343)) or
images that optimize for size it might be missing.
On Ubuntu you can check the locale is installed:
```
grep UTF-8 /etc/default/locale
```
And install it using
```
dpkg-reconfigure locales
```
### I forgot to delete the flatnodes file before starting an import.
That's fine. For each import the flatnodes file get overwritten.