Encoding Error under Windows 10 (using Git shell)

[caha42]

I tried to run the check in a git shell under Win10 I get the following error:

howfairis.exe https://github.com/fdiblen/grlc
Checking compliance with fair-software.eu...
url: https://github.com/fdiblen/grlc
(1/5) repository
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2713' in position 0: character maps to

If it runs unsuccessful, I do not get an error, but the output is broken:

howfairis.exe https://gitlab.com/hifis/hifis-workshops/make-your-code-ready-for-publication/astronaut-analysis.git -b check-final-results
Checking compliance with fair-software.eu...
url: https://gitlab.com/hifis/hifis-workshops/make-your-code-ready-for-publication/astronaut-analysis.git
branch: check-final-results

Did not find a README[.md|.rst] file at https://gitlab.com/hifis/hifis-workshops/-/raw/check-final-results/
Proceeding without it -- expect the compliance to suffer.

(1/5) repository
▒ has_open_repository
(2/5) license
▒ has_license
(3/5) registry
▒ has_ascl_badge
▒ has_bintray_badge
▒ has_conda_badge
▒ has_cran_badge
▒ has_crates_badge
▒ has_maven_badge
▒ has_npm_badge
▒ has_pypi_badge
▒ has_rsd_badge
▒ is_on_github_marketplace
(4/5) citation
▒ has_citation_file
▒ has_citationcff_file
▒ has_codemeta_file
▒ has_zenodo_badge
▒ has_zenodo_metadata_file
(5/5) checklist
▒ has_core_infrastructures_badge

In case you cannot see it, instead of a status symbol there is a grey checkered box.

[fdiblen]

Hi @caha42,

Thank you for reporting this.
@jspaaks and me tried it on Windows 10 with Python 3.9 (from the Microsoft Store) using Git Bash (installed Git Bash from https://gitforwindows.org).

We could reproduce your issue (see the screenshot below).

Solution:

export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8
export PYCHARM_HOSTED="Trick colorama into displaying colored output"

After setting these environment variables, the output looks much better.

Let us know if that solves your issue.

[caha42]

Yes, that fixed it. Thank you very much!