The copyright symbol causes this error:

(pyr_1)python % pcreate -s alchemy pyrtests  
Creating directory /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests
  Recursing into +package+
    Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/
    Copying __init__.py to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/__init__.py
    Recursing into __pycache__
      Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/__pycache__/
    Copying models.py to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/models.py
    Recursing into scripts
      Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/scripts/
      Copying __init__.py to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/scripts/__init__.py
      Recursing into __pycache__
        Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/scripts/__pycache__/
      Copying initializedb.py to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/scripts/initializedb.py
    Recursing into static
      Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/static/
      Copying pyramid-16x16.png to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/static/pyramid-16x16.png
      Copying pyramid.png to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/static/pyramid.png
      Copying theme.css to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/static/theme.css
      Copying theme.min.css to /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/static/theme.min.css
    Recursing into templates
      Creating /home/fenton/projects/python/pyrtests/pyrtests/templates/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/bin/pcreate", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pyramid==1.5', 'console_scripts', 'pcreate')()
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scripts/pcreate.py", line 16, in main
    return command.run()
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scripts/pcreate.py", line 75, in run
    return self.render_scaffolds()
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scripts/pcreate.py", line 93, in render_scaffolds
    scaffold.run(self, output_dir, vars)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/template.py", line 65, in run
    self.write_files(command, output_dir, vars)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/template.py", line 97, in write_files
    template_renderer=self.render_template,
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/copydir.py", line 103, in copy_dir
    template_renderer=template_renderer, out_=out_)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/copydir.py", line 103, in copy_dir
    template_renderer=template_renderer, out_=out_)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/copydir.py", line 115, in copy_dir
    template_renderer=template_renderer
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/copydir.py", line 260, in substitute_content
    return template_renderer(content, v, filename=filename)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/scaffolds/template.py", line 35, in render_template
    content = native_(content, fsenc)
  File "/home/fenton/.virtualenvs/pyr_1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/compat.py", line 81, in native_
    return str(s, encoding, errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2559: ordinal not in range(128)