userdata ps script failed with ''ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 error

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Hi, My userdata script (powershell script) failed with the following error. Can you help find out what the cause is? I was not able to upload my script. I can provide my script by email if needed.

Thanks, David

2015-02-27 11:02:59.128 284 INFO cloudbaseinit.init [-] Executing plugin 'UserDataPlugin' 2015-02-27 11:02:59.128 284 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://10.42.245.21:8775/openstack/la...data _getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:72 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 ERROR cloudbaseinit.init [-] plugin 'UserDataPlugin' failed with error ''ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 6303: ordinal not in range(128)' 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 ERROR cloudbaseinit.init [-] 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 6303: ordinal not in range(128) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init Traceback (most recent call last): 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\init.py", line 69, in execplugin 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init shareddata) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\plugins\windows\userdata.py", line 45, in execute 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init return self.processuserdata(userdata) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\plugins\windows\userdata.py", line 62, in _processuserdata 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init LOG.debug('User data content:\n%s' % userdata) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\logging_init.py", line 1411, in debug 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init msg, kwargs = self.process(msg, kwargs) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\openstack\common\log.py", line 310, in process 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init msg = six.texttype(msg) 2015-02-27 11:02:59.426 284 TRACE cloudbaseinit.init UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 6303: ordinal not in range(128)