Specify UTF-8 encoding with file i/o

bot/crawlers.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class _Crawler():
             update = f"Reading page {idx+1}/{pages_len}"
             print(update, end='\r', flush=True)
             entry = self._entry_class(page_id)
-            with open(page_path, "r") as f:
+            with open(page_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 page = f.read()
             entry.set_page(page)
             self._entries.append(entry)

bot/data.py

@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ def load_config():
         os.makedirs(config_dir)
     config_file = os.path.join(config_dir, "config.json")
     if Path(config_file).is_file():
-        with open(config_file, "r") as f:
+        with open(config_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             config = json.load(f)
     else:
         config = __load_default_config()
-        with open(config_file, "w") as f:
+        with open(config_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             json.dump(config, f, indent=4)
     return config
 

bot/icons.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def make_monochrome_fill_rectangle(path, text):
 
 
 def __calculate_svg_ratio(path):
-    with open(path, "r") as f:
+    with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         xml = f.read()
     soup = BeautifulSoup(xml, "xml")
     svg = soup.svg

bot/scraper.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class Scraper():
         html = self.__read_cache(cache_path)
         if html is None:
             html = self.__get(urlstring)
-            with open(cache_path, "w") as f:
+            with open(cache_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 f.write(html)
         else:
             print("Discovering cached files...", end='\r', flush=True)
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class Scraper():
 
     def __read_cache(self, cache_path):
         if Path(cache_path).is_file():
-            with open(cache_path, "r") as f:
+            with open(cache_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 file_contents = f.read()
         else:
             file_contents = None