LookupError('unknown encoding: utf-16-le') on Windows 11 with Anaconda3-2024.06-1-Windows-x86_64.exe

Hi Luc, if it still matters: I ran into the same problem and solved it in a dirtier way. The cause of it, in my case, seemed to be an update of openssl to 3.4.1 on Windows 11, producing the error message:

ERROR conda.core.link:_execute(938): An error occurred while installing package ‘conda-forge::openssl-3.4.1-ha4e3fda_0’.

If you ignore this dependency using the --no-deps argument in conda, it may install and work with the default 3.0.16.