Unable to pip install 0.5.7.2 on CentOS/Ubuntu

[czheo]

Collecting socketIO-client==0.5.7.2
  Using cached socketIO-client-0.5.7.2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-8oosb13y/socketIO-client/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
      File "/usr/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 0xc3 in position 5782: ordinal not in range(128)

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-8oosb13y/socketIO-client/

There seems to be some encoding problem.