OCI CLI Fails If Environment Variables "LC_ALL" and "LANG" Is Not Set

Applies to

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Accessing OCI Bucket using oci cli works on interactive session but fail if run from cron with error:

RuntimeError: Click will abort further execution because Python 3 was configured to use ASCII as encoding for the environment. 
Consult https://click.palletsprojects.com/python3/ for mitigation steps.

Cause

OCI CLI is a Python3 script that uses Click.

Click requires "LC_ALL" and "LANG" environment variables to be set.

Solution

Define the environment variable in the script run by cron.

For example, if using bash, use:

#!/bin/bash
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8