diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6cb907c..7d45ead 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## CHANGELOG
 
+### 2.0.1
+
+* Better license file open handling in Python 3
+
 ### 2.0.0
 
 * Dropped support Python 2.7
diff --git a/piplicenses.py b/piplicenses.py
index b5a0a16..e9ad269 100644
--- a/piplicenses.py
+++ b/piplicenses.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 open = open  # allow monkey patching
 
 __pkgname__ = 'pip-licenses'
-__version__ = '2.0.0'
+__version__ = '2.0.1'
 __author__ = 'raimon'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
 __summary__ = ('Dump the software license list of '
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def get_pkg_license_file(pkg):
         for test_file in glob.glob(license_file_base):
             if os.path.exists(test_file):
                 license_file = test_file
-                with open(test_file) as license_file_handle:
+                with open(test_file, encoding='utf-8') as license_file_handle:
                     license_text = license_file_handle.read()
                 break
         return (license_file, license_text)
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ def save_if_needs(output_file, output_string):
         return
 
     try:
-        with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
+        with open(output_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
             f.write(output_string)
         sys.stdout.write('created path: ' + output_file + '\n')
         sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 2aba3fc..5526edb 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bdist_wheel]
-universal=1
+universal=0
 [aliases]
 test=pytest
 [tool:pytest]