UnicodeDecodeError when modify an INI file that contains unicode characters in Aria Automation config

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The INI file in question contains unicode characters.
• The following stack trace is thrown when attempting to interact with this INI file:
  
  An un-handled exception was caught by Salt's global exception handler:
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte xxxx in position xxx: character maps to <undefined>
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  
   

Environment

VMware Aria Automation Config 8.x

Resolution

The issue is resolved in version v3007.0

Workaround:
To workaround the issue remove the unicode characters from the INI file.