Installation Error : UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 21: character maps to <undefined>

[Ajinkz]

OS: Windows 10
Python v3.6.x

E:\clients\Assets\FR_Infogen_v3\IGL\code>pip install git+https://github.com/iitzco/faced.git
Collecting git+https://github.com/iitzco/faced.git
  Cloning https://github.com/iitzco/faced.git to c:\users\diksha\appdata\local\temp\pip-req-build-5ibodt8c
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\Diksha\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-5ibodt8c\setup.py", line 14, in <module>
        long_description=readme(),
      File "C:\Users\Diksha\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-5ibodt8c\setup.py", line 6, in readme
        return f.read()
      File "D:\ai\envs\face3\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 0x8f in position 21: character maps to <undefined>

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Diksha\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-5ibodt8c\

[Sureshthommandru]

Same problem to me, did you solve this problem?

[Ajinkz]

Same problem to me, did you solve this problem?

Not yet

[piotrekm7]

#9 resolves this error

[shaypal5]

Just want to say that I had the same issue in a very different Python project, and the solution in PR #9 solved this for me, so thank you!

[jxanders]

This works for me on python 3.7.9. Repo owner hasn't committed any code to GitHub since 2018 :(