[ELE-871] Specifying deafult encoding

[manulpatel]

Describe the bug
Potential Issue for Developers/Contributors
When installing elementary on Windows using the github repo with pip install -e . The metadata generation fails (screenshot). The issue is arising due to different default encoding used in Windows while reading the README.md file.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone the elementary repo on Windows.
2. Activate virutal environment and install necessary dev requirements
3. pip install -e . in the powershell
4. See error

Expected behavior
Elementary should be installed normally without any errors.

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• edr Version: 0.7.8
• OS: Windows 11

_ELE-871