'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128). Skipping

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[root@host ~]# sudo ./certbot-auto renew --dry-run
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.tingtashuo.cn.conf

Cert not due for renewal, but simulating renewal for dry run
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for www.tingtashuo.cn
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (www.tingtashuo.cn) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.tingtashuo.cn.conf produced an unexpected error: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe6 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128). Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/www.tingtashuo.cn/fullchain.pem (failure)

** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates below have not been saved.)

All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/www.tingtashuo.cn/fullchain.pem (failure)
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates above have not been saved.)

1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

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The problem has been solved。
Delete all Chinese comments（include nginx.conf）

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Hi @xiaoyuhao0716,

Nonetheless, you have identified a bug in Certbot because it should not be necessary for users to delete foreign-language comments. So, I’ve just filed an issue about this in our bug tracker.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

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I tried to add the following code to parse.py, and it works.

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
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