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Hi, I have just starting using Prefect on Windows. Was initailly using it on MAC OS with no issues.
Upon trying to run a prefect deploy, I was prompted with:

'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 16299: character maps to &lt;undefined&gt;

Any guidance on this would be greatly appreicated. THanks a lot !

Hi Youssef! Hmm, after doing some digging online, you may have some luck setting this environment variable:
```export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8```


From what I can tell, this error indicates a decoding issue when Python is attempting to read a file with a specific encoding. The file might contain characters that are not supported by the `charmap` codec, which can be associated with Windows-1252 encoding.

I'd give a +1 to Nate's suggestion though about <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/new/choose|opening an issue as well>. If you could give a heads up as to whether or not setting the env variable works, that'd be much appreciated. :bow::skin-tone-2: