In the fallback codepath for reading README.md in setup.py open does not specify an encoding, nor convert the text. This can cause the file to be read in as ASCII, which will error out because the file is encoded in UTF-8 and contains non-ASCII text in it (Français).
There are workarounds, so this is not a huge priority, but it can be confusing because the error can happen when running pip install.
ivanistheone
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4 years ago
In the fallback codepath for reading
README.mdinsetup.pyopen does not specify an encoding, nor convert the text. This can cause the file to be read in as ASCII, which will error out because the file is encoded in UTF-8 and contains non-ASCII text in it (Français).There are workarounds, so this is not a huge priority, but it can be confusing because the error can happen when running pip install.