# Error: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

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**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/error-invalid-byte-sequence-in-utf-8/1384 "2018-01-22T17:41:10Z")\
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I don’t think it has to be the config file that has the problem, I think it could be any file…

Try running it with --verbose and maybe it will give you more specific info. Seems like there is another argument that gives you additional error detail but I can’t think of it at the moment.

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