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Hi Everyone:   I'm running into a problem using a prefect profile.  I'm on Windows 10, Prefect 2.8.5, working within a conda environment with python 3.8.16.  Running through an example project using dbt, snowflake, prefect by Anna Geller on <https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/modular-data-stack-build-a-data-platform-with-prefect-dbt-and-snowflake-part-2-cf753708a19e|Medium>.

From bash, I entered the following,  which completed with no errors
`prefect profile create dev`

then I tried to use the profile by issuing the following command and received the errors below.
`prefect profile use dev`

Error screen snip:

Solved:  Thanks to <@U01MBTAPL6S> who found this <https://gist.github.com/NodeJSmith/e7e37f2d3f162456869f015f842bcf15|GitHub Post by NodeJSmith> (thank you).  It is a Windows environment var issue concerning UTF-8 encoding.

Added the following two windows system environment vars:

`PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8`
`PYTHONUTF8=1`