- update to 23.12.11:
* Added fallback to name when common_name or official_name
country attributes are missing
* Added support for adding and removing country records, as well
as casting to dict
* Improve performance speed by checking for non-ascii chars
before removing accents
* Added search_fuzzy method to subdivisions
* Added type hinting, created py.typed file, and added mypy
checks to CI
* Dropped support for end-of-life Python 3.6 and 3.7.
* Added support for Python 3.11 and Python 3.12.
* Added dependency on importlib-resources for Python 3.8.
* Dropped implicit dependency on setuptools for pkg_resources.
* Update to iso-codes 4.15.0. (Thanks to alanorth!)
* Removes iso3166.mo files and opts for newer iso3166-1.mo and
iso3166-3.mo files for Country and Historic Country Translations
respectively.

encoding when opening description files in setup.py