refactor setting of local encoding; remove from top-level omniperf

wrapper and push into base class via a companion utility function

Signed-off-by: Karl W Schulz <karl.schulz@amd.com>

src/omniperf

@@ -25,23 +25,16 @@
 ##############################################################################el
 
 import sys
-import locale
 import logging
-from utils.utils import error
 from omniperf_base import Omniperf
 from utils.utils import console_error
 
 def main():
-    try:
-        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
-    except locale.Error as e:
-        logging.warning("Please ensure that the 'en_US.UTF-8' locale is available on your system.")
-        error(f"Error setting locale: {e}")
 
     omniperf = Omniperf()
-    
+
     mode = omniperf.get_mode()
-    
+
     # major omniperf execution modes
     if mode == "profile":
         omniperf.run_profiler()

src/omniperf_base.py

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ from utils.utils import (
     console_debug,
     console_log,
     console_error,
+    set_locale_encoding,
 )
 from utils.logger import setup_console_handler, setup_logging_priority, setup_file_handler
 from argparser import omniarg_parser
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ SUPPORTED_ARCHS = {
 
 class Omniperf:
     def __init__(self):
+        set_locale_encoding()
         self.__args = None
         self.__profiler_mode = None
         self.__analyze_mode = None

src/utils/utils.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 # SOFTWARE.
 ##############################################################################el
 
+import locale
 import logging
 import sys
 import os
@@ -593,3 +594,13 @@ def print_status(msg):
     console_log(msg)
     console_log("~" * (msg_length + 1))
     console_log("")
+
+
+def set_locale_encoding():
+    try:
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
+    except locale.Error as error:
+        print("Please ensure that the 'en_US.UTF-8' locale is available on your system.")
+        print("")
+        print("ERROR: ", error)
+        sys.exit(1)