Merge pull request #651 from gergondet/fix_non_utf8_setup

Open README.rst with utf-8 encoding

AUTHORS.md

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ switch, and thus all their contributions are dual-licensed.
 - Pascal van Kooten <kootenpv@MASKED>
 - Pavel Ponomarev <comrad.awsum@MASKED>
 - Peter Bieringer <pb@MASKED>
+- Pierre Gergondet <pierre.gergondet@MASKED> (gh: @gergondet)
 - Quentin Pradet <quentin@MASKED>
 - Roy Williams <rwilliams@MASKED>
 - Savraj <savraj@MASKED>

changelog.d/651.misc.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed an issue with the setup script running in non-UTF-8 environment. Reported and fixed by @gergondet (gh pr #651)

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