Unicode Normalization not appropriate for ASCII-8BIT - ios

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13: from /usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `<main>'
12: from /usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `load'
11: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/bin/pod:55:in `<top (required)>'
10: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:52:in `run'
9: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:324:in `run'
8: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:337:in `rescue in run'
7: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:396:in `handle_exception'
6: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:66:in `report_error'
5: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:30:in `report'
4: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:105:in `markdown_podfile'
3: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/config.rb:226:in `podfile_path'
2: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/config.rb:166:in `installation_root'
1: from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/config.rb:166:in `unicode_normalize'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/unicode_normalize/normalize.rb:141:in `normalize': Unicode Normalization not appropriate for ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)
I am Facing these errors, don't know why when I run pod update it gives me this error. Any solution??

Answer 1

This issues appeared in Cocoapods 1.11.0 and as many already noticed rolling back to 1.10.2 fixes the issue. But the original issue comes from wrong locale set in the terminal. It has to be a UTF-8-based locale.
You can run 'locale' in the terminal to check current locale settings. It should be something like this:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
If you have ascii-based locales set or "C" (which is also an ascii locale) then run
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
If you prefer some other locale (not en_US) then run locale -a to see the list of available options and pick UTF-8 locale you prefer.
Actually CocoaPods warns that UTF-8 locale is required:
WARNING: CocoaPods requires your terminal to be using UTF-8 encoding.
Consider adding the following to ~/.profile:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
But before 1.11.0 it was required only in case you use pods which contain non-ascii symbols in their names (Chinese for example) but starting 1.11.0 it become more strict. There is a discussion on Cocoapods GitHub about it:
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/10939

Answer 2

The answer of
Vyacheslav Kormushkin worked for me.
Concretely, what I did was:
open Terminal
type open ~/.zshrc (or .profile if you don't use zsh)
add export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, and save the file
go back to Terminal
type source ~/.zshrc
type locale
==> The locale will now be fixed
==> You can now safely run pod update or pod install

Answer 3

I fixed it doing this:
I uninstalled completely cocoapods (my version was 1.11.0)
gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-core (1.11.0)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.5)
cocoapods-downloader (1.5.0)
cocoapods-plugins (1.0.0)
cocoapods-search (1.0.1)
cocoapods-trunk (1.6.0)
cocoapods-try (1.2.0)
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-core
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-plugins
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-search
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-trunk
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-try
Then i installed cocoapods version 1.10.1 (you can try with more versions under 1.11.0 if you need)
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.10.1

Answer 4

I had the same problem but using React Native, the following worked for me(direct):
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pod install

Answer 5

First solution is, to remove your current version of the cocoapods and rolling back to 1.10.2
To remove your current version, you could just run:
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
then you can install the 1.10.2 version of cocoa pods via the following command:
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.10.2
The second solution is, to install the cocoapods via Homebrew with the following command:
brew install cocoapods

Answer 6

If you are here because of the failure outputs from Github actions. Try my solution:
add this to the top level of your github workflow yml file:
env:
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
ref: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/environment-variables

Answer 7

if you have installed cocoapods using brew, run:
brew remove cocoapods
after that, install cocoapods using gem:
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.10.1