UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\U0001f6d1' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

This Python error might happen if you are having problems displaying non-ASCII characters in your terminal when running a Python script. This is mainly a problem with your locale settings used by your terminal. I provide two solutions to resolve it:

  • Solution #1: change your locale settings (best solution)
  • Solution #2: export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 (temporary solution)

Solution #1: change your locale settings (best solution)

The best solution consists in fixing your locale settings since it is permanent and you don’t have to change any Python code.
  1. Append ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile with: 
    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

    You should provide your own UTF-8 based locale settings. The example uses the English (US) locale with the encoding UTF-8. The locale -a command gives you all the available locales on your Linux or Unix-like system.

  2. Reload the .bashrc:
    $ source .bashrc

  3. Run the locale command to make sure that your locale settings were set correctly:
    $ locale

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

  4. Run your Python script to test if you can display the non-ASCII characters fine using the correct encoding UTF-8 :
    $ python your_script.py
See also:

Solution #2: export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 (temporary solution)

Before running your Python script, export the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING with the correct encoding:
$ export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8
$ python your_script.py

However, this is not a permanent solution because if you use another terminal, you will have to export PYTHONIOENCODING again before running the script.

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