Merge #343

343: Windows OS encoding issue r=alallema a=jrinder42

## Type of PR
Bug fix - Issue #342 

## Description
Explicitly add the encoding type when creating the long description in the setup.py script, otherwise running tox throws an error in  Windows 

Co-authored-by: Jordan Rinder <[email protected]>

Author: bors[bot]

setup.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
+with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf8") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(