Unicode Characters wont work in snapcraft

Question

When I try to use Unicode characters, for example € my app only prints the escape sequence. i.e. \u20AC. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

What worked for me is setting the locale under apps in my snapcraft.yaml file to look like the following.

apps:
  <app-name>:
    environment:
      LC_ALL: C.UTF-8

If that doesn't work also try setting the base to core18