Cassandra : 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 218: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I have cqlsh on Ubuntu 16.04 and here's my version of cqlsh :

[cqlsh 5.0.1 | Cassandra 3.10 | CQL spec 3.4.4 | Native protocol v4]

I can't create a keyspace and the error I get is this one :

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 218: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I get it to work?

I tried to log in with this command :

cqlsh 127.0.0.1 9042 -u cassandra -p cassandra --cqlversion="3.4.4" --encoding utf-8

but it didn't work.

Command to create a keyspace that I used :

CREATE KEYSPACE Excelsior
       WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3};

Thanks for any answer.

Answer 1

The error say that CQLSH ascii encoder can't encode the unicode character u'\\xe9' which represent é

So when creating keyspace use keyspace name in ascii format.

By the way using your create keyspace command gives me no error, but if i use keyspace name with unicode character like 'éxcelsior' can produce the exact same error