Unable to use latest Arduino IDE with nRF52840

Products & Technology Arduino & Seeeduino
#1

OS: MacOS 13.3
IDE: Arduino 2.0.4
Board: Seeed XIAO nRF52840

I’ve got the following error while trying to compile the sketch(any):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 317, in <module>
  File "click/core.py", line 1134, in __call__
  File "click/core.py", line 1040, in main
  File "click/_unicodefun.py", line 100, in _verify_python_env
RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment. Consult https://click.palletsprojects.com/unicode-support/ for mitigation steps.

This system lists some UTF-8 supporting locales that you can pick from. The following suitable locales were discovered: af_ZA.UTF-8, am_ET.UTF-8, be_BY.UTF-8, bg_BG.UTF-8, ca_ES.UTF-8, cs_CZ.UTF-8, da_DK.UTF-8, de_AT.UTF-8, de_CH.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8, el_GR.UTF-8, en_AU.UTF-8, en_CA.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8, en_IE.UTF-8, en_NZ.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8, es_ES.UTF-8, et_EE.UTF-8, eu_ES.UTF-8, fi_FI.UTF-8, fr_BE.UTF-8, fr_CA.UTF-8, fr_CH.UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8, he_IL.UTF-8, hr_HR.UTF-8, hu_HU.UTF-8, hy_AM.UTF-8, is_IS.UTF-8, it_CH.UTF-8, it_IT.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, kk_KZ.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, lt_LT.UTF-8, nl_BE.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8, no_NO.UTF-8, pl_PL.UTF-8, pt_BR.UTF-8, pt_PT.UTF-8, ro_RO.UTF-8, ru_RU.UTF-8, sk_SK.UTF-8, sl_SI.UTF-8, sr_YU.UTF-8, sv_SE.UTF-8, tr_TR.UTF-8, uk_UA.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_HK.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8
[28792] Failed to execute script __main__

exit status 1

Compilation error: exit status 1

Any idea how to solve this?

#2

This error occurs because the default encoding for your Python environment is set to ASCII, which can cause issues when working with non-ASCII characters.

To fix this error, you need to set your default Python encoding to UTF-8. Here are the steps to do it:

Open the terminal on your Mac.

Run the command below to open your bash profile:

bash
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nano ~/.bash_profile
Add the following line at the end of the file:
arduino
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export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Press Control + X to exit nano and save the changes.

Close the terminal and reopen it.

Try compiling your sketch again.

This should solve the error you’re experiencing.
Greeting,
Rachel Gomez

#3

Which example did you use to run it?
You first check to see if you have successfully added the libraries needed for the example in arduino.
I hope I can help you.