Unicode characters in README cause issues on Pypi (display) and occasionally in pip install

[DaisyLoveU]

Please help~！
details：windows10 os，in cmd, pip3 install jupytext --upgrade (both have Python2 and Python3)

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Collecting jupytext
Using cached https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/1d/de/ae5c3a0b1a07a581db9cfe3ee74466f53cad19182a8d58b4e819de6dd783/jupytext-0.6.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\ZZCE57~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2gipwivl\jupytext\setup.py", line 6, in
long_description = f.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 2178: illegal multibyte sequence

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\ZZCE57~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2gipwivl\jupytext\

And I can't find that File...

[mwouts]

Interesting! Thanks for reporting. I've seen indeed that some unicode characters in the README are not correctly displayed at pypi. We need to fix setup.py for that.

For now I recommend that

• your clone the project from GitHub
• you comment this line in setup.py : long_description = f.read()
• change directory to the first jupytext folder (where setup.py is located), and run pip install -e . (don't forget the point)

[hktxt]

(Pytorch) C:\Users\Max>pip install jupytext --upgrade
Collecting jupytext
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1d/de/ae5c3a0b1a07a581db9cfe3ee74466f53cad19182a8d58b4e819de6dd783/jupytext-0.6.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\Max\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2qsrqm7d\jupytext\setup.py", line 6, in
long_description = f.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 2178: illegal multibyte sequence

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same issue.

[DaisyLoveU]

@mwouts hi，Marc. I've clone this project and add encoding='utf-8' in line 5 for open() function, then run python setup.py install, finally, it succeeded! Hope you can add this parameter, cause may lots of Chinese meet this issue. Thank you!

[mwouts]

Thanks @DaisyLoveU . Sure I will correct for this in v0.6.4. Thanks for the tip. By the way - I've found a similar issue and resolution at mozilla/unicode-slugify#16, so we must be on the right way with your change!

[mwouts]

@DaisyLoveU , could you please upgrade to v0.6.4 (from pypi) and test? With

pip install jupytext==0.6.4

Thanks!

[DaisyLoveU]

Thank you @mwouts for @ me! I am glad to do it! This time it goes well！