fix: add UTF-8 encoding when reading README.md #970
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Description
Fixed UnicodeDecodeError when installing package on Windows systems by explicitly setting UTF-8 encoding when reading README.md file.
Issue
When installing the package on Windows, the setup.py script fails with a UnicodeDecodeError because it tries to read README.md using the default system encoding (cp1252) which can't handle some special characters.
Fix
Added explicit UTF-8 encoding when opening README.md file.