ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/lib/chef/mixin/template.rb:74:in `split' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/lib/chef/mixin/template.rb:74:in `source_listing' Setting Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8 if RUBY_VERSION > "1.9" on the recipe makes the template to be renderize correctly. It don't have effect to us