From a658e14e8b7f578d55102b981ce8828b906b432f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Firshman <ben@firshman.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:37:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Specify encoding when loading readme

Loading readme fails when system locale is not utf-8.

Potentially replaces #1313

Signed-off-by: Ben Firshman <ben@firshman.co.uk>
---
 setup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 89c97c87..2d1bfdbb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+import codecs
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ with open('./test-requirements.txt') as test_reqs_txt:
 
 long_description = ''
 try:
-    with open('./README.rst') as readme_rst:
+    with codecs.open('./README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as readme_rst:
         long_description = readme_rst.read()
 except IOError:
     # README.rst is only generated on release. Its absence should not prevent