- long_description=open(os.path.join(_this_dir, 'README'), 'r').read(),
- classifiers = filter(None, classifiers.split("\n")),
+ long_description=codecs.open(
+ os.path.join(_this_dir, 'README'), 'r', encoding='utf-8').read(),
+ classifiers = list(filter(None, classifiers.split("\n"))),