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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 561: ordinal not in range(128)

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#22 opened on May 12, 2015

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Building with python3.4 on Debian:

I: pybuild base:170: python3.4 setup.py clean Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 15, in history = open('HISTORY.rst').read().replace('.. :changelog:', '') File "/usr/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] i : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 561: ordinal not in range(128)

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Modify setup.py to open HISTORY.rst with explicit encoding='utf 8' to fix UnicodeDecodeError on systems with ASCII default encoding.
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