• revert accidental change to ascii default (fixes #1760)
  • UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 6-7: character maps to <undefined> can be fixed by installing tqdm!=4.68.0,!=4.68.1
• misc docs updates
  • fix links
  • replace stray rst -> md syntax
  • consistent "progress bar" terminology (#1737)
• tests: fix coverage (fixes #1760)