error when running 'sudo pihole5-list-tool'

[patrickisfrench]

Hello jessedp, I'm having an error appear when trying to run your tool. I'm using a raspberry pi 4 on the latest version of raspbian (buster). I followed the instruction in your post for installation which reported fine, then when trying to run the tool I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pihole5-list-tool", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/ph5lt.py", line 82, in main print(color(' \u250c\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2510', fg='#b61042')) UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 21-64: ordinal not in range(256)

Seen this before? I will admit I know nothing of programming, and am a basic linux user. I followed many guides to get pi-hole 5 up and running and any help you can offer on this issue would be awesome. Thank you very much!

[jessedp]

i have not seen that. My guess was that your terminal might be in a non-UTF8 character set and that was causing it, but trying to change it to latin-1 didn't break it. What is that, though. For example, mine is:

# sudo echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

I'll see if I can make that happen so I can come up with some fix.

[patrickisfrench]

Hey jessedp, it looks like my $LANG is set to en_GB - great britain it seems. but I can change it to US UTF-8 if it allows me to install, how might I do that?

[patrickisfrench]

I found the locale settings and adjusted it, then re-ran your tool. everything works now. thank you so much for the quick replies!

[jessedp]

Sweet. Would you mind posting what you did in case someone else runs into this?

[patrickisfrench]

sure! I don't know the commands in terminal for what I did as I found it browsing around pixel (xwindows). I clicked on the Raspi menu > Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration > Localisation > Set Locale > changed country from GB (United Kingdom) to US (United States), and Character Set from ISO to UTF-8, saved, reboot the raspi, and re-ran the tool. Everything good now!

Reason I had it GB to begin with was I like the name "Wastebasket" better than "Trash" (US locale uses this name). I couldn't find a way to rename the Trash bin otherwise. Silly, I know, haha

[jessedp]

That's amazing, I love it. I'm pretty sure that all that mattered was the Character Set if you want to change the Country back.

[MexSalem]

Some helpful commands in terminal
Display current locale settings:
$ locale
Show available locales:
$ locale -a
If a locale does not appear in the list, it must be generated:
$ sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
A list of all available locales can be found in the following file:
$ cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
Adjust Locales:
The default settings are stored in the file /etc/default/locale:

$ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

This file can either be adjusted manually or updated with the update-locale tool:
$ sudo update-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
(Hint: update-locale also generates the file /etc/default/locale if it does not exist.)
Then reboot the system or open a new console.

UTF-8 encoding in terminal is required for pihole5-list-tool to show the red frame on startup..