Merge pull request #123 from akaihola/readme-encoding

Read `README.rst` excplicitly as UTF-8 in `setup.py` to fix Windows installation problems
akaihola · Apr 24, 2021 · 24f1b10 · 24f1b10
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diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Fixed
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 - Compatibility with MyPy 0.812
 - Keep newline character sequence and text encoding intact when modifying files
+- Installation now works on Windows
 
 
 1.2.2_ - 2020-12-30

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def make_pypi_compliant_readme() -> str:
     :return: The contents of a PyPI compliant ``README.rst``
 
     """
-    with open("README.rst") as fp:
+    with open("README.rst", encoding="utf-8") as fp:
         original_readme = fp.read()
     modified_readme = CONTRIBUTORS_RE.sub(
         "\nSee README.rst_ for the list of contributors.\n\nThis project follows ",