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# Troubleshooting

## UnicodeDecodeError on import

Since `schwifty`’s bank regisry contains bank names with non-ASCII characters, the corresponding JSON files are encoded in UTF-8. In some Docker container setups (and possibly elsewhere) it might occur that a `UnicodeDecodeError` is raised on import. This can be fixed in most cases by adjusting the locales setup to support UTF-8. See this blog post for more information. Since version `2022.04.0` this issue has been fixed, so that `schwifty` uses the correct encoding by default.