Problem with Anaconda, oh-my-posh and Git Bash for Windows

[afigueroa1xp]

Hello

I'm having a problem with oh-my-posh and Anaconda using Git bash for Windows... Everytime I want to install a package from Anaconda in my Python environment, I get this error:

# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\pc1\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1129, in __call__
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\pc1\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 111, in main_sourced
    print(activator.execute(), end="")
  File "C:\Users\pc1\anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\ue200' in position 98: character maps to <undefined>

$ C:\Users\pc1\anaconda3\Scripts\conda-script.py shell.posix reactivate
An unexpected error has occurred. Conda has prepared the above report.

This issue doesn't occur in PowerShell, only in Git Bash… When I deactivate oh-my-posh in Git Bash, the issue disappear. What could be the reason of this error?

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@afigueroa1973 this is a UTF-8 error and thus a Conda bug. Python3 should come with UTF-8 out of the box, 2 doesn't. However your shell could be not set to UTF-8 (see 1252 encoding) and Conda could be trying to read the prompt. Theoretically changing Python (or your shell) to use UTF-8 could change this, nonetheless it's a Conda bug.

[afigueroa1xp]

Thank you for your quick answer…

After research about UTF-8 problems on Python and Windows, I found that this problem is resolved creating a Python UTF-8 environment variable on Windows

PYTHONUTF8=1

That, solved my problem… Thanks again for the tip.