diff -purN inflect-0.2.4.orig/setup.py inflect-0.2.4/setup.py

--- inflect-0.2.4.orig/setup.py	2013-06-09 03:03:47.000000000 -0400

+++ inflect-0.2.4/setup.py	2014-07-08 14:02:39.471445182 -0400

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import inflect

 here = os.path.dirname(__file__)

 readme_path = os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')

-readme = open(readme_path).read()

+readme = open(readme_path, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8')

 setup(

     name='inflect',