pipenv crashes with an click error

[halloleo]

When running pipenv without any parameters (installed into Python 3.6) I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pipenv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 676, in main
    _verify_python3_env()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/_unicodefun.py", line 118, in _verify_python3_env
    'for mitigation steps.' + extra)
RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment.  Consult http://click.pocoo.org/python3/for mitigation steps.

This system lists a couple of UTF-8 supporting locales that
you can pick from.  The following suitable locales where
discovered: af_ZA.UTF-8, am_ET.UTF-8, be_BY.UTF-8, bg_BG.UTF-8, ca_ES.UTF-8, cs_CZ.UTF-8, da_DK.UTF-8, de_AT.UTF-8, de_CH.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8, el_GR.UTF-8, en_AU.UTF-8, en_CA.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8, en_IE.UTF-8, en_NZ.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8, es_ES.UTF-8, et_EE.UTF-8, eu_ES.UTF-8, fi_FI.UTF-8, fr_BE.UTF-8, fr_CA.UTF-8, fr_CH.UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8, he_IL.UTF-8, hr_HR.UTF-8, hu_HU.UTF-8, hy_AM.UTF-8, is_IS.UTF-8, it_CH.UTF-8, it_IT.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, kk_KZ.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, lt_LT.UTF-8, nl_BE.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8, no_NO.UTF-8, pl_PL.UTF-8, pt_BR.UTF-8, pt_PT.UTF-8, ro_RO.UTF-8, ru_RU.UTF-8, sk_SK.UTF-8, sl_SI.UTF-8, sr_YU.UTF-8, sv_SE.UTF-8, tr_TR.UTF-8, uk_UA.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_HK.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8

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Environment:

OS is macOS 10.11
Python is 3.6.3
Terminal is (and has to be) set to ASCII.
LANG environment variable is not set (but could be if that helps).

[halloleo]

More details:

Python installed via homebrew.
pipenv does run under Python 2.7 as long as only Python 2 venvs are created.

[techalchemy]

@halloleo sorry that you ran into this issue, thanks for the report. There is actually a known issue with locale settings and MacOS terminals with regard to unicode. In order to run anything at all involving python3 or requiring unicode support (including pipenv) I think you'll have to set LC_ALL and LANG to something like en_US.UTF-8 in your .bash_profile (see also #187)

Hope that helps, and thanks again!

[halloleo]

Thank @techalchemy! export LANGUAGE does the trick. This issue caused me so many headaches, because not only pipenv breaks but lots of python3 tools. The fix seem to work universally! :-)

[idchlife]

Interesting. In my zsh profile everything works normal, but with circus (https://circus.readthedocs.io) it breaks with this error. Too, macos. Will try with language

update:

works this:

[env]
LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8
LANG = en_US.UTF-8