Hi Molly,

You might have accidentally passed a non-unicode character to the command line (maybe somewhere in the path to the input volume). Sometimes this happens if code is copy-pasted from elsewhere. Can you try running it again but manually typing out the recon-all command? Otherwise, I’m not quite sure what would be going on here.

Best,

Andrew

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Yang Molly <mollyyang1006@gmail.com>
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Date: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 10:01 AM
To: FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: [Freesurfer] Error for version 7.1.0 when run the recon-all

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Hi list,

I tried to run the latest version Freesurfer (7.1.0) on the Ubantu 18.04 system. I downloaded the “freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.1.0.tar.gz” and successfully installed. I tried to run "recon-all -s bert -autorecon1" and the terminal replied as "recon-all -s bert finished without error ". However, when I tried to run the recon-all use the common" recon-all -i /home/molly/FStry/preA063/preA063.nii -s sub063 -all", the terminal replied 

"Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/freesurfer/python/scripts/rca-config", line 137, in <module>

    file.write(arg + '\n')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\udc87' in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

ERROR: could not configure recon-all parameters"

I did not retrieve a similar question in the previous mailing list and hope to get your help.

Thank you

Molly