How to fix: “UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte”

Question

as3:~/ngokevin-site# nano content/blog/20140114_test-chinese.mkd
as3:~/ngokevin-site# wok
Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"/usr/local/bin/wok\", line 4, in
         


        

Answer 1

In order to resolve this on an operating system level in an Ubuntu installation check the following:

$ locale charmap

If you get

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

instead of

UTF-8

then set LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL like this:

$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
$ export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"