This issue affects the QGIS version of FWDET on MacOS for QGIS: 3.18.0-Zürich and 3.16.4-Hannover.
If the error trace includes UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xb0' in position 898: ordinal not in range(128) you are likely running into this issue. This issue is known to the QGIS developers and discussed (in this issue)[https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/41870].