diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/omniperf b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/omniperf
index b507559943..094d725fcc 100755
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/omniperf
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/omniperf
@@ -25,13 +25,19 @@
 ##############################################################################el
 
 import sys
+import locale
+import logging
+from utils.utils import error
 from omniperf_base import Omniperf
 
 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()
-    omniperf.parse_args() #TODO: We already do this in the __init__ for Omniperf(). Change that?
-
     mode = omniperf.get_mode()
 
     # major omniperf execution modes
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
index 7a410a6444..f8ee2d2365 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ import pandas as pd
 
 from datetime import datetime
 from math import ceil
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict, fields
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field, fields
 from pathlib import Path as path
-from textwrap import dedent
 from utils.utils import error, get_hbm_stack_num, get_version
 from utils.tty import get_table_string
 
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/utils.py b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/utils.py
index 90112358ff..16bd13ea8a 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/utils.py
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/utils.py
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ import subprocess
 import shutil
 import pandas as pd
 import glob
-from utils import specs
-from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path as path
 import config
 
@@ -324,6 +322,8 @@ def gen_sysinfo(
 
 
 def detect_roofline(mspec):
+    from utils import specs
+
     rocm_ver = mspec.rocm_version[:1]
 
     os_release = path("/etc/os-release").read_text()