FAQ

Why does lymph crash with UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character …?

Since many lymph commands produce unicode output, you have to set your locale to UTF-8, e.g. with

$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

If you want to pipe lymph commands with Python 2, you might also have to set PYTHONIOENCODING

$ export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8