Legacy 3.6 branch UnicodeDecodeError during installation

[quva-lab]

Legacy 3.6 branch UnicodeDecodeError during installation

[braun-steven]

Sorry, I should have posted the complete environment that I was testing it in. I tried to reproduce it on different machines now with no success.

I was using the nvidia docker cuda-10.1-cudnn7-devel image (ubuntu 18.04 as base) from which the above-mentioned error occurred.

Setting encoding='utf-8' in fact solves the issue.

I'm not sure why this specific setup causes the issue in the first place but it might be a good idea to set it to utf-8 as default for compatibility reasons.

[Gabri95]

Hi @Steven-LANG

Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce this issue..

I am trying to install the legacy version with

pip install git+https://github.com/QUVA-Lab/e2cnn@legacy_py3.6

and I am using pip 20.2.2.

I guess the problem is that long_description contains the source of the file README.md, which might have some special characters.

I found a similar problem (and a possible solution) here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/pull/834/files
They just explicitly add encoding='utf-8' when loading the README file.

However, since I can not reproduce this issue on my machines, I also can not check if this solves the problem.
Would you mind trying it on you machine?

Please, let me know if this solves your problem :)

Gabriele