AWS elastic beanstalk initialization error while deploying Django app

I tried to install awsebscli package in my virtualenv by first trying the following command

pip install awsebcli

      

        
        
        
      

    

then the following command which initializes eb

eb init

      

        
        
        
      

    

then when I select a region number from the given list it says the following below.

UnicodeDecodeError: ascii codec cannot decode byte 0xe2 at position 20: ordinal not in range (128)

This error appears when I select an area using its number.