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Install fails with UnicodeDecodeError in some locales #17

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When trying to install python-string-utils with python 3.6 and pip 20.0.2 in a SLES 15 SP1 docker container, the install fails with this error:

    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4lc71oyc/python-string-utils/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4lc71oyc/python-string-utils/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-4lc71oyc/python-string-utils/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-4lc71oyc/python-string-utils/
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-4lc71oyc/python-string-utils/setup.py", line 4, in <module>
        long_description = readme.read()
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8392: ordinal not in range(128)
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

README.md has some non-ASCII characters, and it appears that the locale in the docker container uses ascii encoding by default. Likely setup.py just needs to specify utf-8 encoding to open README.md.

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