huggingface-cli login on Google Colab results in UTF-8 locale error

[ayyucedemirbas]

Hi,

I encountered an issue while trying to login to Hugging Face using the !huggingface-cli login command on Google Colab. The command results in the following error:

NotImplementedError: A UTF-8 locale is required. Got ANSI_X3.4-1968

I managed to solve the issue by adding the following code before the login command:

import locale
locale.getpreferredencoding = lambda: "UTF-8"

This solution works temporarily, but I believe the underlying issue should be addressed on the HuggingFace Hub.

Thank you for your time and attention.

[Wauplin]

Hi @ayyucedemirbas to login in a colab notebook, it is recommended to either set a Colab secret called HF_TOKEN (that you will be able to share between notebooks) or to run

from huggingface_hub import login

login()

in the first cell.

Could you try that and let us know how it goes?

[Wauplin]

About the UTF8 issue, can you copy-paste the full error with stacktrace please?