Wrong encoding causes pwndbg to crash

[Corb3nik]

With a fresh installation of pwnvm :

1. Run the /home/vagrant/tools/pwndbg/setup.sh script.
2. Remove Voltron from ~/.gdbinit
3. Open gdb

I obtain the following error message :

➜  ~ gdb
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Your encoding (ISO-8859-1) is different than UTF-8. pwndbg might not work properly.
You might try launching gdb with:
    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 gdb
Make sure that en_US.UTF-8 is activated in /etc/locale.gen and you called locale-gen
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vagrant/tools/pwndbg/gdbinit.py", line 36, in <module>
    import pwndbg # isort:skip
  File "/home/vagrant/tools/pwndbg/pwndbg/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>

Running gdb with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 gdb fixes the issue.

Is there a reason for using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 by default? If not, I'll suggest a fix in a PR.

[dreyes15]

This appears to still be an issue. Is there a fix by any chance?

[Grazfather]

Try this: #7