Anki not starting

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1

I tried running anki on my arch system but it would not start. The terminal gave me the following output: File “aqt/init.py”, line 30, in
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “runanki.py”, line 3, in
File “”, line 991, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 671, in _load_unlocked
File “/home/dae/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyInstaller-4.0.dev0+g2886519-py3.8.egg/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py”, line 625, in exec_module
File “aqt/init.py”, line 32, in
Exception: Anki requires a UTF-8 locale.

2

What version of Anki are you running? I believe the latest version requires Python 3.9, so perhaps that will help.

4

I am using version 2.1.49

5

I would give the latest beta a try, or try running it from source.

6

You need to switch your Linux system to use a UTF8 locale. Your distro likely has a wiki page with guidance.