Open README.rst with utf-8 encoding

dyuval · Mar 26, 2018 · f39c1ae · f39c1ae
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 import warnings
 
+import io
+
 if isfile("MANIFEST"):
     os.unlink("MANIFEST")
 
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ def run(self):
 PACKAGES = find_packages(where='.', exclude=['dateutil.test'])
 
 def README():
-    with open('README.rst') as f:
+    with io.open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         readme_lines = f.readlines()
 
     # The .. doctest directive is not supported by PyPA