UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa8 in position 1144: illegal multibyte sequence about kifield HOT 4 OPEN

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Kicad Application: KiCad x64 on x64
Version: 7.0.9, release build

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add encoding='utf-8', problem solved

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Since you've identified the problem and have a potential fix, why not just issue a pull request?

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Since you've identified the problem and have a potential fix, why not just issue a pull request?
Thanks.

I find it's not a good ideal to modify source file,because all the open function in source shoud be added "encoding='utf-8' ".

the reason of UnicodeDecodeError is the system encoding method,because when python open file,it use system default encoding.
I use windows in china,the default encoding is 'gbk',so when python open file ,it use 'gbk' codec to decode utf-8 file that cause error.
So the solution is set Python to utf-8 mode,just set the PYTHONUTF8=1 environment variable,no need to modify source file.
Python: Use the UTF-8 mode on Windows!

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