I am moving to Gentoo LInux, and as per instructions on the website I’ve unpacked the tar from anki instead of using my package manager. The error is: when I try to sync, Anki gives me an error like this: Syncing failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "aqt/sync.py", line 342, in run…

That worked. Thanks for the quick reply.

UnicodeEncodeError when syncing

abdo August 2, 2020, 5:17pm 2

Try applying similar instructions to those found in this post:

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /path/to/anki

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