UTF-8 support in snapcraft is still quite poor. For example, Python applications requiring UTF-8 fail on most systems because the snap only contains `C.UTF-8`, not the locale of the host machine. As a result, python seems to fallback to ASCII, breaking many libraries. Existing python snaps solve this in a number of ways: 1. A wrapper script that sets LC_ALL to "C.UTF-8": https://github.com/juju/charm-tools/blob/c3cee3672978d19cb66b7a301c0fbae9542eb58d/helpers/snap-wrappers/charm#L8 2. Change the application itself to fallback to "C.UTF-8": https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/4042556714400d2156cb89efb86bf294500d1f41/snapcraft/cli/__main__.py#L40 3. Setting LC_ALL to "C.UTF-8" in snapcraft.yaml (either using `environment` or by prefixing the command string): https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/blob/13102d3eeded33a4ad749078de9bbca5000ffbe6/snapcraft.yaml#L22 Since so many people have this issue, would it be possible to provide a fix for it in snapcraft? Below you can find an example for the click library failing because the locale fallsback to ASCII. ``` Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/snap/gh-teacher/x4/bin/gh-tools", line 172, in <module>     cli(obj={}) #pylint: disable=E1123,E1120   File "/snap/gh-teacher/x4/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__     return self.main(*args, **kwargs)   File "/snap/gh-teacher/x4/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 696, in main     _verify_python3_env()   File "/snap/gh-teacher/x4/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/_unicodefun.py", line 124, in _verify_python3_env     ' mitigation steps.' + extra RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment. Consult https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/python3/ for mitigation steps. This system supports the C.UTF-8 locale which is recommended. You might be able to resolve your issue by exporting the following environment variables:     export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8     export LANG=C.UTF-8 Click discovered that you exported a UTF-8 locale but the locale system could not pick up from it because it does not exist. The exported locale is "en_US.UTF-8" but it is not supported ``` Related bug in snapcraft itself: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1576411