always state encoding when opening files in text mode

[nominatim.git] / nominatim / config.py

diff --git a/nominatim/config.py b/nominatim/config.py
index 13d9cd8a0d502e4b1f1b5ab58ca7e0761772cfaf..a3f91055fc76b37bf338291c6b7aa2350afb4d21 100644 (file)
--- a/nominatim/config.py
+++ b/nominatim/config.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class Configuration:
         if configfile.suffix in ('.yaml', '.yml'):
             result = self._load_from_yaml(configfile)
         elif configfile.suffix == '.json':
-            with configfile.open('r') as cfg:
+            with configfile.open('r', encoding='utf-8') as cfg:
                 result = json.load(cfg)
         else:
             raise UsageError(f"Config file '{configfile}' has unknown format.")