UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m working on a Python script that uses the scissor character (9986 - ✂) and I\'m trying to port my code to Mac, but I\'m running into this error.

The scissor char

Answer 1

My locale is set to de_AT.UTF-8 but these lines in /etc/profile were missing:

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

logout / login and your problem should be solved

To verify if all locales are set correctly type locale in your terminal

The output should be similar to this:

LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_AT.UTF-8