From: Kevin Murray <kdmfoss@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:59:59 +1100
Subject: Fix encoding issue in setup.py

---
 setup.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0a6be71..ac2d66c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ class sdist(versioneer_sdist):
 cmdclass['build_ext'] = build_ext
 cmdclass['sdist'] = sdist
 
-with open('README.rst') as f:
-	long_description = f.read()
+with open('README.rst', 'rb') as f:
+	long_description = f.read().decode('utf8')
 
 setup(
 	name = 'cutadapt',
