Character Encoding Issue When Installing on Windows

[electronsandstuff]

Describe the bug Thanks for the library! I have an issue where pip fails to install it on Windows due to character encoding in README.md read by setup.py. By the way, my use case is that I am developing code on a Windows platform and then pushing it to a Raspberry Pi to take advantage of my existing IDE setup.

Here is a full copy of the pip error:

Collecting mh-z19
  Using cached mh_z19-3.1.1.tar.gz (13 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py): started
  Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status 'error'

  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  exit code: 1

  [8 lines of output]
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
    File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
    File "C:\Users\Christopher Pierce\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-n1zxmenn\mh-z19_8fc0a2b6efaf4a988424c84193cf061c\setup.py", line 4, in <module>
      long_description = f.read()
    File "C:\Users\Christopher Pierce\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
      return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 10805: character maps to <undefined>
  [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

Encountered error while generating package metadata.

See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new venv on a Windows computer
2. Run pip3 install mh_z19

Expected behavior The library is installed.

[electronsandstuff]

Ok, just added a PR that seems to resolve this. For those reading in the future, you do need to force the package to install without the dependency RPi.GPIO which cannot be compiled on Windows. However, even without this, having the package does supply nice autocomplete information for those developing on Windows and pushing to a Raspberry Pi.

[UedaTakeyuki]

Hi Christopher M. Pierce,

Thank you for telling me your interesting need and nice PR for this. I've merged it and updated it.

[UedaTakeyuki]

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