Can't install django dev version when path contains non-ascii characters on Windows10

[zhaogp]

My home directory like this "C:\Users\张三" where "张三" is my chinese name.

UnicodeEncodeError was raised when i install django using "pip install -e ."

<UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 11-13: ordinal not in range(128) ">

However I install it on linux where my home dir is "/home/zhangsan", it can be installed sucessfully.

I know that the error above is caused by the chinese-characters in my home directory.

Can this be fixed? Thanks.

[Claude Paroz]

Without the full traceback, it's impossible to say if Django is at fault. Could you give us that information?

[zhaogp]

Replying to Claude Paroz:

Without the full traceback, it's impossible to say if Django is at fault. Could you give us that information?

Hi Claude, here the full traceback is, thanks!

C:\Users\赵国平\django>pip install -e .
Obtaining ​file:///C:/Users/%E8%B5%B5%E5%9B%BD%E5%B9%B3/django
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in c:\python34\lib\site-packages (from Django==2.1.dev20170924155150)
Installing collected packages: Django

Found existing installation: Django 2.1.dev20170924155150

Uninstalling Django-2.1.dev20170924155150:

Successfully uninstalled Django-2.1.dev20170924155150

Running setup.py develop for Django

Complete output from command c:\python34\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:
Users
赵国平
django
setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace

('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" develop --no-deps:

running develop
running egg_info
writing dependency_links to Django.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing requirements to Django.egg-info\requires.txt
writing entry points to Django.egg-info\entry_points.txt
writing Django.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to Django.egg-info\top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'Django.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no previously-included files matching 'pycache' found anywhere in distribution
writing manifest file 'Django.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
Creating c:\python34\lib\site-packages\Django.egg-link (link to .)
Django 2.1.dev20170924155150 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing django-admin-script.py script to c:\python34\Scripts
Installing django-admin.exe script to c:\python34\Scripts

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\赵国平\django\setup.py", line 72, in <module>

'Topic

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules', File "c:\python34\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\python34\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\python34\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\develop.py", line 36, in run self.install_for_development() File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\develop.py", line 150, in install_for_development self.process_distribution(None, self.dist, not self.no_deps) File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 727, in process_distribution self.install_egg_scripts(dist) File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\develop.py", line 186, in install_egg_scripts self.install_script(dist, script_name, script_text, script_path) File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 806, in install_script self.write_script(script_name, _to_ascii(script_text), 'b') File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 107, in _to_ascii return s.encode('ascii') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 241-243: ordinal not in range(128)

----------------------------------------

Rolling back uninstall of Django
mmand "c:\python34\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:
Users
赵国平
django
setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close()
xec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" develop --no-deps" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\赵国平\django\

[zhaogp]

full traceback

[Claude Paroz]

I guess that at some point the path is added to the django-admin.exe generated script and as setuptools is not able to handle non-ascii content in scripts [1], it fails.
Someone more familiar with Windows may help here. Not sure if Django can do something to prevent that.

[1] ​https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/761

[Tim Graham]

I think this needs to be fixed in setuptools.

[zhaogp]

I resolved it by setting the environment variable "LC_ALL" to "en_US.UTF-8"
Replying to Tim Graham:

I think this needs to be fixed in setuptools.