Pip install django-toolbelt get an error :" codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2

Question

I use Arch linux with Python 3 default. I use Konsole to download django-toolbelt with command pip install django-toolbelt. Name: pip Version: 6.1.1

I get an error

Collecting django-toolbelt
  Using cached django-toolbelt-0.0.1.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): django in ./venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages (from django-toolbelt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): psycopg2 in ./venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages (from django-toolbelt)
Collecting gunicorn (from django-toolbelt)
  Using cached gunicorn-19.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting dj-database-url (from django-toolbelt)
  Using cached dj_database_url-0.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting dj-static (from django-toolbelt)
  Using cached dj-static-0.0.6.tar.gz
Collecting static3 (from dj-static->django-toolbelt)
  Using cached static3-0.6.0.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-w5v7urb2/static3/setup.py", line 52, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
      File "/home/phi/python/venv/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 0xc2 in position 2097: ordinal not in range(128)

    ----------------------------------------
    Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-w5v7urb2/static3

How can I fix it?

look heer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte — John Smit, May 17 '15 at 11:11
@Alik check it again for me. thank you and @ Ebre i tried but not working — user3863069, May 17 '15 at 12:33
@Alik C POSIX en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 it it exactly locale? — user3863069, May 17 '15 at 13:15
LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= — user3863069, May 17 '15 at 13:21
@user3863069 OK, try to execute this `LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 pip install django-toolbelt` — Konstantin, May 17 '15 at 13:29
OH MY GOD, many thanks to you, i did it, i can tell you how im happy. You save me one week. Thank you very much! — user3863069, May 17 '15 at 13:43
@user3863069 I'll post it as an aswer along with an explanation then — Konstantin, May 17 '15 at 13:44
@user3863069 if the answer below solved your question then [accept it](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/251399/471899) please — Konstantin, May 17 '15 at 14:47

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '15 at 14:08

Run

LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 pip install django-toolbelt

There is a problem in pip. If you use non-unicode locales like C and try to install a package with pip UnicodeDecodeErrors may be thrown when setup.py tries to read files containing non-ASCII characters.

In this case it were acute accents ´ introduced in this change.

I am going to report this issue on Github.

Pip install django-toolbelt get an error :" codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2

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