Failed to install when default encoding is not UTF-8

[lilydjwg]

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "setup.py", line 12, in <module>
 README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
 File "/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
 return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 181: ordinal not in range(128)

[keigoi]

Just fix as

open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst'), encoding="utf-8").read()

then the rest of installtion went fine.

Hi,

Can you update into Git and Pypi, otherwise it cannot be installed.

[mchlnix]

I also tripped over this in windows. I hope you could make that quick change and update the pypi package.

When installing in Windows, using the command line, you can type in set PYTHONUTF8=1 to set the default encoding to UTF-8 and then install it normally using pip. This made it work for me.

[C0MPL3XDEV]

Hi when try to install i get this error message:

 Using cached romkan-0.2.1.tar.gz (10 kB)
 Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
 error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
 × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
 │ exit code: 1
 ╰─> [10 lines of output]
 C:\Users\devcm\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-7d9p1dht\romkan_ae291f723d6f4502b53978285229a9eb\setup.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib and slated for removal in Python 3.12; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
 import os, json, imp
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
 File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\devcm\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-7d9p1dht\romkan_ae291f723d6f4502b53978285229a9eb\setup.py", line 12, in <module>
 README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
 File "C:\Users\devcm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
 return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 226: character maps to <undefined>
 [end of output]

 note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.```