Hi,

I tried to run Freesurfer (macOS-7.1.1) to the command line and the terminal replied, 

"DavidLaus-MacBook-Air:local davidlau$ recon-all -i /Users/davidlau/Desktop/testing/1RAS.nii -subject /Users/davidlau/Desktop/testing/$d done

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Users/davidlau/Documents/freesurfer/python/scripts/rca-config", line 143, in <module>

    file.write(arg + '\n')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcc3' in position 0: surrogates not allowed

ERROR: could not configure recon-all parameters"

A similar question has been retrieved from the mail list (20 Jul 2020) by Molly and Andrew replied that there might be a non-unicode character accidentlly passed to the command line and recommended manually typing out the recon-all command. I've tried this several times but the same error message popped out. 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

David