Terminal encoding error when running on Yosemite about gitinspector HOT 3 CLOSED

seems to be many places to edit though, not sure if there is a smarter way?? 
see this error for example

$ python gitinspector.py -T --format='html' ~/repos/joniab/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gitinspector.py", line 194, in <module>
    main()
  File "gitinspector.py", line 182, in main
    __run__.output()
  File "gitinspector.py", line 72, in output
    format.output_header()
  File "/Users/niklasosterlund/Dropbox/public repos/gitinspector/gitinspector/format.py", line 101, in output_header
    hide_minor_rows = _("Hide rows with minor work")))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in position 
14182: ordinal not in range(128)

Has been reported previously.

This is because your terminal is configured to use ascii. Gitinspector will 
always try to output characters into the chosen encoding. Most likely, it's 
trying to encode unicode characters into ascii (which is your chosen encoding). 
If you make sure to set your LANG to something like en_US.UTF-8 it should start 
working. Refer to the other issue you submitted.

It would also work to introduce encode everywhere and use 
getpreferredencoding() + "ignore" on all encode calls, but this is more of a 
hassle - and would also result in skipped characters.

/Adam Waldenberg

Thank you, it solved it and I learned something new :)