From 790549fd25eb50ceed852ce3436e3afc111bbf37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 07:13:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Open our README appropriately

Systems without a LOCALE present will not be able to read our file
appropriately on Python 3. This was causing our Python 3 CI jobs on
GitLab to fail.
---
 setup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f6eac78..2624db4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import functools
+import io
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ def get_long_description():
     """Generate a long description from the README and CHANGES files."""
     descr = []
     for fname in ('README.rst',):
-        with open(fname) as f:
+        with io.open(fname, encoding='utf-8') as f:
             descr.append(f.read())
     return '\n\n'.join(descr)