Fix installation problem when LANG=C

setup.py

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 38a5072..b9a7cf4 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 from os.path import isfile, join
+import codecs
 import glob
 import os
 import re
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@
 
 TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(__file__) or "."
 VERSION = re.search('__version__ = "([^"]+)"',
-                    open(TOPDIR + "/dateutil/__init__.py").read()).group(1)
+                    codecs.open(TOPDIR + "/dateutil/__init__.py", encoding='utf-8').read()).group(1)
 
 
 setup(name="python-dateutil",