title: PIP Install Numpy throws an error "ascii codec can't decode byte 0xe2"
body: <p>I have a freshly installed Ubuntu on a freshly built computer. I just installed python-pip using apt-get. Now when I try to pip install Numpy and Pandas, it gives the following error.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen this error mentioned in quite a few places on SO and Google, but I haven't been able to find a solution. Some people mention it's a bug, some threads are just dead... What's going on?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
      load_entry_point('pip==1.5.4', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 185, in main
      return command.main(cmd_args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main
      text = '\n'.join(complete_log)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>