Unable to use latest Arduino IDE with nRF52840

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?

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

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.