UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2

[Amit Hattimare]

I am seeing the below error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 8673: ordinal not in range(128)

while performing the installation. The error is coming from File "setup.py", line 12, in <module>. The README file perhaps characters that are not being parsed correctly. The issue is being reproduced in Python 3.6.9 though I don't see it in version 3.8.2.

I am trying to setup another project macaw which uses DrQA and saw error in the setup. I cannot use python 3.8 for that project due to other incompatible dependencies.