PyCharm is changing the default encoding in my Django app

Question

I am running into an issue where plyplus is erroring out with:

  File \"/Users/FOO/.virtualenvs/ff/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plyplus/grammars/         


        

Answer 1

Coming from OSX 10.14.2, I fixed it by changing my primary language to English (US) instead of English.

This is also discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38557558/4960855

Answer 2

PyCharm passes a blank value for the LC_CTYPE environment variable.

I need to explicitly add an environment variable to my run config: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

My shell has this environment variable set. It's strange that PyCharm sets it to a blank value.