spades utf-8 error

== Error ==  utf-8

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/spades/spades_pipeline/support.py", line 142, in check_file_not_empty
    if next(reads_iterator, None) is None:
  File "/usr/local/share/spades/spades_pipeline/common/SeqIO.py", line 119, in parse_fastq
    while not reader.EOF():
  File "/usr/local/share/spades/spades_pipeline/common/SeqIO.py", line 69, in EOF
    return self.Top() == ""
  File "/usr/local/share/spades/spades_pipeline/common/SeqIO.py", line 36, in Top
    self.FillCash()
  File "/usr/local/share/spades/spades_pipeline/common/SeqIO.py", line 30, in FillCash
    self.cash = self.handler.readline()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 705, in readline
    return self.reader.readline(size)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 558, in readline
    data = self.read(readsize, firstline=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 504, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte


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