> On Feb 4, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony,
>
> I suspect that one of your UNI files being processed by StrGather has an invalid Unicode character in it.  Can you review the UNI files in the module that is being build when this error is generated?
>
> I would be better if this code identified the file/line number with the issue, so that would be a good Bugzilla to enter.
>

Mike,

I hit something like this too writing some Python. I think I ended up telling the codec to ignore errors, so that might be another option? This I think the issue I saw was in C code. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> Mike
>
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> <devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>> On Behalf Of Pham, Tony Q
> Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 1:39 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] EDK2
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with build.py
>
> (Python 3.9.1 on win32) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\build\build.py", line 2635, in Main
>     MyBuild.Launch()
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\build\build.py", line 2433, in Launch
>     self._BuildModule()
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\build\build.py", line 1895, in _BuildModule
>     Ma.CreateCodeFile(True)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\ModuleAutoGen.py", line 1832, in CreateCodeFile
>     for File in self.AutoGenFileList:
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\Common\caching.py", line 28, in __get__
>     Value = obj.__dict__[self._function.__name__] = self._function(obj)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\ModuleAutoGen.py", line 983, in AutoGenFileList
>     GenC.CreateCode(self, AutoGenC, AutoGenH, StringH, AutoGenUniIdf, UniStringBinBuffer, StringIdf, AutoGenUniIdf, IdfGenBinBuffer)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\GenC.py", line 2044, in CreateCode
>     CreateUnicodeStringCode(Info, AutoGenC, StringH, UniGenCFlag, UniGenBinBuffer)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\GenC.py", line 1706, in CreateUnicodeStringCode
>     Header, Code = GetStringFiles(Info.UnicodeFileList, SrcList, IncList, Info.IncludePathList, ['.uni', '.inf'], Info.Name, CompatibleMode, ShellMode, UniGenCFlag, UniGenBinBuffer, FilterInfo)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\StrGather.py", line 563, in GetStringFiles
>     Uni = SearchString(Uni, sorted (FileList), IsCompatibleMode)
>   File "C:\edk2\BaseTools\Source\Python\AutoGen\StrGather.py", line 532, in SearchString
>     for Line in Lines:
>   File "C:\Users\tqpham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
>     return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 5457: character maps to <undefined>
>
>
> - Failed -
> Build end time: 13:36:22, Feb.04 2021
> Build total time: 00:00:02
>