From dc37c8ca23ef1146ac178b813d7158ed3a9f8044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mzwiessele <ibinbei@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:27:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [setup]

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

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 66d99e08..0ec30c20 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ import numpy as np
 def read(fname):
     try:
         with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)) as f:
-            return unicode(f.read())
+            return unicode(f.read(), 'utf-8')
     except NameError:
         #python 3
         with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)) as f:
-            return (f.read())
+            return unicode(f.read(), 'utf-8')
 
 def read_to_rst(fname):
     try: