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Install error with UnicodeDecodeError at process of Run cookiecutter on the boilerplate repo

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported cookiecutter command against the dash-component-boilerplate repository with the Python versions mentioned in the issue. Trace the source of the UnicodeDecodeError and confirm that the boilerplate can be installed successfully without the decoding failure.

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Description

Display "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)" in console after i run the command “cookiecutter https://github.com/plotly/dash-component-boilerplate.git”,The same is true of toggle python version between python2 and python3,Installation is fail.

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