Fix Windows build from source and up version to 1.0.8

Redo of previous pull request without added README.md text 1. All was needed to get building from source to work on Windows was to add encoding="utf-8" when open readme.md for the long description in setup.py 2 Up the version to 1.0.8 for runtime Windows fix (change was after 1.0.7) and re-enabling allowing python 3.12