UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

[stabud]

Hi!

I tried using terminal on linux with argos-translate:

argos-translate.cli --from-lang en --to-lang ru "Hello World"

And got the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/argos-translate/10/bin/argos-translate", line 5, in
cli.main()
File "/snap/argos-translate/10/lib/python3.6/site-packages/argostranslate/cli.py", line 60, in main
print(translation.translate(text_to_translate))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)

When using the GUI, everything works well. However, I would like to be able to set the preferred default languages ​​when starting the GUI. At the moment by default: english - arabic.

[PJ-Finlay]

I reproduced this issue, it seems to be Snapcraft specific to trying to encode and print special characters (translating to Spanish works). I made an issue ticket for this and default languages.

• Snapcraft CLI breaks when translating special characters #164
• Set default language in GUI #165

[PJ-Finlay]

An immediate solution would be to install from PyPI or source.

[stabud]

Thank you!