pip: 'utf8' encoding not found

Pip version: 9.0.0
Python version: 2.7.12
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS xenial

Description:

I tried to run Django makemessages with the latest version of pip and it gives me the following error ./lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/webencodings/init.py:1: Unknown encoding “utf8”. Proceeding with ASCII instead.

xgettext: ./lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/webencodings/__init__.py:1: Unknown encoding "utf8". Proceeding with ASCII instead.
xgettext: Non-ASCII string at ./lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/webencodings/__init__.py:64.
          Please specify the source encoding through --from-code or through a comment
          as specified in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
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Comments: 15 (6 by maintainers)

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What worked for me was using the -i flag to ignore my virtualenv:

python manage.py makemessages -l 'sv' -i venv

johanna on Apr 11, 2018

Same issue Django 1.9.6 pip 9.0.3 Python 2.7.10 macOS 10.13.4 (17E199)

toptalo on Apr 10, 2018

I’ve encountered the same problem some minutes ago. Is it really OK? :-" I’m using pip 9.0.1, Django 2.0.2, Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 17.10

MaGaroo on Feb 20, 2018