UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc7 in position 19725: invalid continuation byte

[karthiknit1]

When a catkin build is done on any ROS package in a English windows machine with ROS Noetic distribution with any environment variable value having a non-ASCII character , it leads to the following build error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\T kCM\tp47a9facc_1ee3_4ccd_9f84_5b5a2313db56\build\catkin_generated\generate_cached_setup.py", line 22, in
code = generate_environment_script('C:/Users/XXXXX/AppData/Local/Temp/T kCM/tp47a9facc_1ee3_4ccd_9f84_5b5a2313db56/devel/env.bat')
File "C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\TkCM\ml_pz84\WS6813~1\ros1\lib\site-packages\catkin\environment_cache.py", line 63, in generate_environment_script
env_after = ast.literal_eval(output.decode("utf-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc7 in position 19725: invalid continuation byte
CMake Error at C:/Users/XXXXX/AppData/Local/Temp/TkCM/ml_pz84/w s/ros1/share/catkin/cmake/safe_execute_process.cmake:11 (message):

execute_process(C:/Users/XXXXX/AppData/Local/Temp/tp23c905ed_08b6_4476_894e_cc6222a162d9/ros1/win64/venv/Scripts/python.exe
"C:/Users/XXXXX/AppData/Local/Temp/T
kCM/tp47a9facc_1ee3_4ccd_9f84_5b5a2313db56/build/catkin_generated/generate_cached_setup.py")
returned error code 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):

Expected Behavior:
Build should be successful