Fixing encoding errors on windows

[quadrismegistus]

PR to address #55.

This mainly adds the encoding='utf-8' where appropriate so files open safely on Windows.

I also ran into a recursion error on test_featuretable.py. The issue appears to be a recursion problem in the SegmentSorter class. The segments property is calling sort_segments(), which in turn is accessing segments, creating an infinite loop. There, the changes made in featuretable.py are:

• Renamed sort_segments() to _sort_segments() to indicate it's a private method.
• In the segments property, we now call self._sort_segments() instead of self.sort_segments().
• In _sort_segments(), we set self._sorted = True after sorting.

All tests pass locally for me, on Mac and Windows.