Unexpected error: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c'

[s1ddok]

Getting

Unexpected error validating channel: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in position 7: ordinal not in range(256)

during this call:

response = client.conversations_info(channel=channel_name_or_id)

I've printed the variable char by char and am sure it doesn't contain and quotation marks.

[mwbrooks]

Hi @s1ddok 👋🏻

I think you're correct to be looking for quotation marks. This appears to be a common error when a strong is surrounded by “ instead of ". Sometimes this happens when copying & pasting from outside a code editor (e.g. Slack message or Google Docs). A few people with similar issues were here and here.

Can you check that your channel_name_or_id doesn't contain any quotes? You may also want to check your exported API Tokens.

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