pip install UnicodeDecodeError

[ShaneKao]

Describe the bug

I got the following error message when installing.

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: 'd:\pyvm\ailabuap0.2-dev\scripts\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-l2zwa6vd\\pdfplumber\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-l2zwa6vd\\pdfplumber\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'" ');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-xa95nanc' cwd: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-l2zwa6vd\pdfplumber\ Complete output (5 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-l2zwa6vd\pdfplumber\setup.py", line 19, in <module> long_description = f.read() UnicodeDecodeError: 'cp950' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 4981: illegal multibyte sequence ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Code to reproduce the problem

pip install pdfplumber==0.5.24

Environment

• pdfplumber version: 0.5.24
• Python version: 3.7.5
• OS: Windows

[jsvine]

Seems like you may not have UTF-8 set as your default encoding. Does it work if you run it like this?:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pip install pdfplumber==0.5.24

[jsvine]

Now fixed in develop.

[jsvine]

Now available in v0.5.25.