Facing UnicodeEncodeError while doing ARXML to DBC conversion

[Ram2763]

Facing below error while workign on arxml to .dbc converion,
usig this command : python -m canmatrix.cli.convert -vv CHG00.arxml CHG00.dbc

Command window tarce:
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::HCHGILM_dms65_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::ECAN_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::OVL_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::SMRW_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::EVL_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::EPCHG_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::HM_HTD_dms65_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::HEL_HTD_dms65_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::HEH_HTD_dms65_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::EDCDC_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::VB_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::HWT_HTD_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
WARNING - dbc - Signal EHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus::CHGCCTST_dms00_oEHV1E09_var10_oCANFD_BT_Bus name exceeds 32 characters, consider updating the signal name within the character limit(Max 32 characters)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\cli\convert.py", line 160, in
sys.exit(cli_convert())
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1157, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1078, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1434, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 783, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\cli\convert.py", line 155, in cli_convert
canmatrix.convert.convert(infile, outfile, **options)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\convert.py", line 351, in convert
canmatrix.formats.dumpp(out_dbs, out_file_name, **options)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\formats_init.py", line 129, in dumpp
dump(db, file_object, export_type, **options)
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\formats_init.py", line 104, in dump
module_instance.dump(can_matrix_or_cluster, file_object, **options) # type: ignore
File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\site-packages\canmatrix\formats\dbc.py", line 327, in dump
f.write(signal_line.encode(dbc_export_encoding, ignore_encoding_errors))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2103' in position 67: ordinal not in range(256)

[ebroecker]

Hi @Ram2763

you could try to us another export-encoding for the dbc:
https://canmatrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html