# Termux doesn't provide locale support, but UTF-8 is the default.

--- ./asciinema/__main__.py.orig	2022-05-08 04:11:10.417277242 +0000
+++ ./asciinema/__main__.py	2022-05-08 04:11:37.593919730 +0000
@@ -50,13 +50,6 @@
 
 
 def main() -> Any:
-    if not valid_encoding():
-        sys.stderr.write(
-            "asciinema needs an ASCII or UTF-8 character encoding to run. "
-            "Check the output of `locale` command.\n"
-        )
-        return 1
-
     try:
         cfg = config.load()
     except config.ConfigError as e: