Throws UnicodeEncodeError when python script run via cron

Question

My python script run fine when ran manually but whenever run from cron job it throws UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2122' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

myfile.py:

print(u"\u2122")

I am on macos high sierra and python version is 3.6.0

Can you paste your code?, that will help people know what is causing the issue. — shuberman
– shuberman, Commented Aug 19, 2019 at 4:35
Just made it work by putting LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" on top of my crontab list. This is kind of hack, in other environment it works without this. — ishandutta2007
– ishandutta2007, Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 4:14
It struck me as earlier I had fixed PATH variable issues like this as well. Ideally in crontab file there should be nothing but jobs. So something at OS level must had to be rebuilt or reinstalled to make the fix proper — ishandutta2007
– ishandutta2007, Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 4:16
you should research on why it works in other environments but only this. Is there some setting that would be causing this? Sooner or later someone might face the same issue tomorrow, so make sure to put comments that would help the person who sees this next time. — shuberman
– shuberman, Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 4:22

ishandutta2007 · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-20 04:17:45Z

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Fixed it by putting on top of crontab:

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

answered Aug 20, 2019 at 4:17

ishandutta2007

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