I ran in to an issue where SickRage wasn’t downloading torrents due to a Unicode decode failure. The error I was getting:

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2015-01-17 14:57:12 WARNING  SEARCHQUEUE-MANUAL-272644 :: Failed to download result
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AAUnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 56-57: ordinal not in range(128)
AA    with open(filename, 'wb') as fp:
AA  File "/usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage/SickRage/sickbeard/helpers.py", line 1209, in download_file

To fix this, I ssh’ed in to the jail and ran edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sickrage. After the line load_rc_config ${name}, I pasted the following lines:

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export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

After saving the file and restarting the sickrage service, everything worked again.