This is possibly just a Python issue. If so, please tell me to stop bothering you guys. However, I did not have this issue with Debian, so I was thinking it might be a config issue or something.

I installed toot with pip and when I tried to log in through the console, I got this:

Does anyone know what this means? I am not really sure. Obviously, it is an encoding issue, but I don't know if it is my fault or perhaps some sort of locale setting??? I am lost.

Again, if this is an issue that belongs in a different thread, please tell me.

Hello poetgrant, I will just give it a try, have you checked the file /etc/profile.d/lang.sh?

If I remember correctly the default entry there is "export LANG=en_US". You can check if you have the UTF8 US locale with "locale -av | grep US" and code "export LANG=en_US.UTF8" if it exists in the /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. Then logoff/logon and see what you get.

As i understand from the message, latin-1 does not support the unicode character \u2713 (check mark).

I am not sure though if this has to be defined also (or solely) somewhere specific on python configuration files or just coding it to lang.sh is enough. I have coded the el_GR.utf8 there (lang.sh) and all menus turned to greek. Hope it will not bring problems to your system

Regards, Apostolos.

Hi again, my mistake. The default is "export LANG=en_US.UTF8" on 14.2 current I tried to recreate the problem without success. I installed with pip3 the toot v0.24.0 and when I enter toot i get the following:

root@apost-slack:~# toot
toot - a Mastodon CLI client
v0.24.0

Authentication:
toot login Log into a mastodon instance using your browser (recommended)
toot login_cli Log in from the console, does NOT support two factor authentication
toot activate Switch between logged in accounts.
toot logout Log out, delete stored access keys
toot auth Show logged in accounts and instances

TUI:
toot tui Launches the toot terminal user interface
toot curses An experimental timeline app (DEPRECATED, use 'toot tui' instead)

Read:
toot whoami Display logged in user details
toot whois Display account details
toot notifications Notifications for logged in user
toot instance Display instance details
toot search Search for users or hashtags
toot thread Show toot thread items
toot timeline Show recent items in a timeline (home by default)

Post:
toot post Post a status text to your timeline
toot upload Upload an image or video file

Status:
toot delete Delete a status
toot favourite Favourite a status
toot unfavourite Unfavourite a status
toot reblog Reblog a status
toot unreblog Unreblog a status
toot reblogged_by Show accounts that reblogged the status
toot pin Pin a status
toot unpin Unpin a status

Accounts:
toot follow Follow an account
toot unfollow Unfollow an account
toot mute Mute an account
toot unmute Unmute an account
toot block Block an account
toot unblock Unblock an account


root@apost-slack:~# toot login
Choose an instance [mastodon.social]:

So probably it is not the locale, unless there is a change there.


UPDATE: No matter what I do I can not recreate the problem
I have even started an account on mastodon and logged on from toot console with success.

I'm sorry to have to make an off-topic reply, but back in the day, there was a wrestler who went by the name Tugboat. He dressed like a tugboat captain. His war cry was to mime pulling a tugboat horn and to make a sound with his mouth that was supposed to sound like a tugboat horn. And "Toot" just makes me think of him.