title: Google Cloud SDK installation error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)
body: <p>Google Cloud SDK installation process is failing on my machine(MAC) and giving me following stack trace.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/ttn/Desktop/google-cloud-sdk/bin/bootstrapping/install.py", line 218, in &lt;module&gt;
      main()
    File "/Users/ttn/Desktop/google-cloud-sdk/bin/bootstrapping/install.py", line 203, in main
      sdk_root=bootstrapping.SDK_ROOT,
    File "/Users/ttn/Desktop/google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/platforms_install.py", line 452, in UpdateRC
      completion_update, path_update, rc_path, sdk_root, host_os).Update()
    File "/Users/ttn/Desktop/google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/platforms_install.py", line 214, in Update
      self.path, rc_contents, source_line=self._GetSourceLine())
    File "/Users/ttn/Desktop/google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/platforms_install.py", line 167, in _GetRcContents
      filtered_contents=filtered_contents, line=line)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here are few more details:</p>
  
  <p>System's default python version</p>
  
  <pre><code>python -V
  Python 3.6.1 :: Anaconda custom (x86_64)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Python version for Cloud SDK.</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $CLOUDSDK_PYTHON
  /usr/bin/python2.7
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Checking gcloud command</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcloud
  -bash: gcloud: command not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note: This question might seem as duplicate, but i tried few solution available on portal but nothing worked for me.</p>