UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap'

[cdrakke]

C:\Users\Calvi>pip install horrible-downloader
Collecting horrible-downloader
Using cached horrible-downloader-1.0.4.tar.gz (11 kB)
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'c:\users\calvi\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\Users\Calvi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3348u_dx\horrible-downloader\setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'C:\Users\Calvi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3348u_dx\horrible-downloader\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\Calvi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3348u_dx\horrible-downloader\pip-egg-info'
cwd: C:\Users\Calvi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3348u_dx\horrible-downloader
Complete output (7 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\Calvi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3348u_dx\horrible-downloader\setup.py", line 7, in
long_description = f.read()
File "c:\users\calvi\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\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 5415: character maps to
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[cdrakke]

I found a solution myself but idk if its even decent or just plain bad lmao

! Make sure you have node installed.

-> Clone or download the repo
-> Extract it and open cmd then cd to that directory
-> Edit setup.py

FROM:

with open("README.md", 'r') as f:
    long_description = f.read()

TO:

with open("README.md", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    long_description = f.read()

-> Now go back to the cmd. Be sure that its directory is where you can access setup.py
-> Run python setup.py install

It will have an error: Warning: 'classifiers' should be a list, got type 'tuple'
But it will still install.
I think the creator should update it.

[mtshrmn]

Thank you for submitting this issue. It's already a known issue. (see #22).
I've been working on this today, please expect a new version to come out today and fix the problem.