UnicodeDecodeError on installation?

[nathanmlim]

Not sure why I'm only getting this issue when trying to clean install the package from the repo on TSCC

(dev) [limn1@tscc-gpu-9-6 blues]$ python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 126, in <module>
    long_description=read('README.md'),
  File "setup.py", line 107, in read
    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
  File "/home/limn1/anaconda3/envs/dev/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2199: ordinal not in range(128)