setup: oh, and if there is a utf-8 "BOM" then decode the file contents as utf-8 befor...

[tahoe-lafs/zfec.git] / zfec / setup.py

diff --git a/zfec/setup.py b/zfec/setup.py
index 09de475599e9a44e051cb39aa4f896e25569d6f8..a000c82af0348cf4cb2738fa1e68b47185c5f971 100755 (executable)
--- a/zfec/setup.py
+++ b/zfec/setup.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ data_files = [(doc_loc, data_fnames)]
 readmetext = open('README.rst').read()
 if readmetext[:3] == '\xef\xbb\xbf':
     # utf-8 "BOM"
-    readmetext = readmetext[3:]
+    readmetext = readmetext[3:].decode('utf-8')
 
 setup(name=PKG,
       version=verstr,