Installing on Cygwin

I am having an issue installing rainbowstream due to python on Cygwin using cp1252 as default encoder:

Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
  File "E:\cygwin\tmp\pip-build-68cao31c\rainbowstream\setup.py", line 31, in <module>
    long_description=open("./README.rst", "r").read(),
  File "c:\python\python35-32\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 0x9d in position 2898: character maps to <undefined>

I know I need to change it to utf-8 but can’t find any easy explanations for how to do this - any help with this much appreciated.

[abers]

No problem, I thought that was the case but wasn’t sure if someone had unofficially figured out a way to get it to work. From what I’ve found searching about there are folk like urbster1 where its worked after installing other packages, but not sure which exact ones, and then folk like me where it just doesn’t seen to work, even after a full install. Managed to install it easy enough on my raspberry pi, and can always ssh into it from PC and laptop.

[orakaro]

I’m sorry RS is not officially support Window environment, even inside Cygwin. I’m not sure if people made it worked or not, but i highly recommend using a Linux/Mac environment so you can save all the headache