Explicitly specify the encoding while reading the readme file. #5
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Since the readme file contains a Unicode character, on some systems such as docker container when the terminal encoding is not proper, the setup fails with the following error:
The error is generated while reading the readme file in setup.py
This pull request will resolve this issue. The proposed solution is tested for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.