diff -up python-twitter-3.0/setup.py.fix python-twitter-3.0/setup.py
--- python-twitter-3.0/setup.py.fix	2015-12-29 05:12:01.000000000 -0500
+++ python-twitter-3.0/setup.py	2016-01-26 13:26:00.772088127 -0500
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@
 
 '''The setup and build script for the python-twitter library.'''
 
-import os
+import os, io
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 
 def read(*paths):
     """Build a file path from *paths* and return the contents."""
-    with open(os.path.join(*paths), 'r') as f:
+    with io.open(os.path.join(*paths), 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         return f.read()