UnicodeDecodeError when installing on Windows 10, Python 3.6.4 about pyota-ccurl

[chrisoro]

Yup, I just did chcp in cmd and replaced the 'utf-8' in line 75 with the chcp shown in cmd.

Original issue for pip: pypa/pip#4251

[todofixthis]

The trouble seems related to differences in the way pip.compat.console_to_str works in different versions of Python:

if sys.version_info >= (3,):
    def console_to_str(s):
        try:
            return s.decode(sys.__stdout__.encoding)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            return s.decode('utf_8')

else:
    def console_to_str(s):
        return s

Possible workaround:
https://drj11.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/python-how-is-sysstdoutencoding-chosen/

[todofixthis]

lol there's even a PEP for it:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0528/

[todofixthis]

User was able to work around this issue by explicitly changing the encoding specified in console_to_str() in pip/compat/__init__.py (line 75). (note: pip v9.0.1)

Will look for a more... environmental workaround to recommend in the README (: