From 79b5add08f2aa2c86c16b1d048a2f5cee5f246eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Levitt <nlevitt@archive.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:41:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix encoding problem with long_description

---
 setup.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 66c11b9..6ed90c0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import setuptools
+import codecs
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='rethinkstuff',
-    version='0.1.5',
+    version='0.1.6',
     packages=['rethinkstuff'],
     classifiers=[
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
@@ -14,5 +15,6 @@ setuptools.setup(
     author='Noah Levitt',
     author_email='nlevitt@archive.org',
     description='Rudimentary rethinkdb python library with some smarts, perhaps some dumbs',
-    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
+    long_description=codecs.open(
+        'README.rst', mode='r', encoding='utf-8').read(),
 )