--- a/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/encoding.py	Mon Jul 27 03:47:31 2020 -0400
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# The following comment should be removed at some point in the future.
-# mypy: strict-optional=False
-
-import codecs
-import locale
-import re
-import sys
-
-from pip._internal.utils.typing import MYPY_CHECK_RUNNING
-
-if MYPY_CHECK_RUNNING:
-    from typing import List, Tuple, Text
-
-BOMS = [
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF8, 'utf-8'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF16, 'utf-16'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE, 'utf-16-be'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE, 'utf-16-le'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF32, 'utf-32'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF32_BE, 'utf-32-be'),
-    (codecs.BOM_UTF32_LE, 'utf-32-le'),
-]  # type: List[Tuple[bytes, Text]]
-
-ENCODING_RE = re.compile(br'coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)')
-
-
-def auto_decode(data):
-    # type: (bytes) -> Text
-    """Check a bytes string for a BOM to correctly detect the encoding
-
-    Fallback to locale.getpreferredencoding(False) like open() on Python3"""
-    for bom, encoding in BOMS:
-        if data.startswith(bom):
-            return data[len(bom):].decode(encoding)
-    # Lets check the first two lines as in PEP263
-    for line in data.split(b'\n')[:2]:
-        if line[0:1] == b'#' and ENCODING_RE.search(line):
-            encoding = ENCODING_RE.search(line).groups()[0].decode('ascii')
-            return data.decode(encoding)
-    return data.decode(
-        locale.getpreferredencoding(False) or sys.getdefaultencoding(),
-    )