Writing
cocos new Game -l cpp -p com.nikitpad.Game -d C: \ cocos2dxprojects
Mistake:
'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 25: invalid continuation byte
Only my Python 2.7 is registered in the PATH, even though there are 3.5. I even tried to import the codecs module to the beginning of the cocos.py file.
Screenshot - http://imgur.com/a/4Sv8O