Why does locale.getpreferredencoding() return 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' instead of 'UTF-8'?

Question

Whenever I try to read UTF-8 encoded text files, using open(file_name, encoding=\'utf-8\'), I always get an error saying ASCII codec can\'t decode some characte

Answer 1

I solved it by running the following:

apt install locales-all