Labelimg: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 7531: character maps to <undefined>

[austinulfers]

Attempting to use pip install labelimg to install on Python 3.8.6. I am using a virtual environment and am getting the below error.

• OS: Windows 10
• Python: 3.8.6
• PyQt version: 5.15.2

$ pip install labelimg
Collecting labelimg
  Using cached labelImg-1.8.4.tar.gz (242 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\users\austi\onedrive\git-projects\spikeball-tracking\env\scripts\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\austi\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-a0vzp33l\\labelimg\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\austi\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-a0vzp33l\\labelimg\\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\austi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-4u2c3q40'
         cwd: C:\Users\austi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-a0vzp33l\labelimg\
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\austi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-a0vzp33l\labelimg\setup.py", line 20, in <module>
        readme = readme_file.read()
      File "C:\Python\Python38\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 0x90 in position 7531: character maps to <undefined>
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[Chagui-]

I think its version 1.8.4. Installing previous version worked for me.
pip install labelImg==1.8.3

[austinulfers]

Yup, that was it. Thank you, closing the issue now.

[Chagui-]

But i think this still is a bug. I was reading about the error, and it may be because setup.py is importing the readme file which has some unicode stuff in it. Or something related to that.

[AntonSax]

This is definitely still a bug as I'm receiving this error on my own machine.