Setup: Prevent encoding issue while installing package #5
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Python opens files using the encoding returned by locale.getpreferredencoding(), which is 'cp1252' in Windows. For cross-platform compatibility, it is needed to explicitly specify 'utf-8' when reading files. File is also opened in read-only since it is not necessary to have write access to README and LICENCE files during install.
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Python opens files using the encoding returned by
locale.getpreferredencoding(), which is 'cp1252' in Windows.
For cross-platform compatibility, it is needed to explicitly
specify 'utf-8' when reading files.
File is also opened in read-only since it is not necessary
to have write access to README and NEWS files during install.