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unicode char in README.rst breaks installation with Python 3 and C locale

See original GitHub issue

When installing ciso8601 as a package dependency, using Python 3 and C locale:

Searching for ciso8601
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/ciso8601/
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/06/2e/2d7b09bb667bd7d862838c1ab7d0dd06be1de27ff60a7c1b0fb0db53fc93/ciso8601-1.0.5.tar.gz#md5=831bbf799722d34a5e60d91e1fd63cd6
Best match: ciso8601 1.0.5
Processing ciso8601-1.0.5.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-b_gqrezf/ciso8601-1.0.5/setup.cfg
Running ciso8601-1.0.5/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-b_gqrezf/ciso8601-1.0.5/egg-dist-tmp-e66bnce5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/arvados/test/VENV3DIR/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 158, in save_modules
    yield saved
  File "/var/lib/arvados/test/VENV3DIR/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 199, in setup_context
    yield
  File "/var/lib/arvados/test/VENV3DIR/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 254, in run_setup
    _execfile(setup_script, ns)
  File "/var/lib/arvados/test/VENV3DIR/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 49, in _execfile
    exec(code, globals, locals)
  File "/tmp/easy_install-b_gqrezf/ciso8601-1.0.5/setup.py", line 4, in <module>
    # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  File "/var/lib/arvados/test/VENV3DIR/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 1561: ordinal not in range(128)

This is caused by non-ASCII character “µs” in README.rst

With some googling I found a discussion about this same problem relating to a different package:

https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow/issues/208

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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annp89commented, Dec 4, 2017

Will this be added to a minor version release?

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norpolcommented, Dec 4, 2017

Thanks for bumping @annp89, in addition, I’ve just sent @anemitz an mail to the address mentioned in their profile page.

UPDATE: Got a response from anemitz, my mail got forwarded to a person that might deal with the PR eventually.

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