From cb415f8ae9f1a202d9d3e6b3aaf356c584d4e140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hesam Damghanian <32716448+Sk7w4tch3r@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:10:29 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] Support for utf-8 characters

Default encoding differs across platforms (i.e. cp1252 in windows) which causes unexpected behaviours with certain character sets. It is suggested to specify the encoding type directly.
---
 mindmeld/resource_loader.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mindmeld/resource_loader.py b/mindmeld/resource_loader.py
index 5d38bc9bc..1603a3422 100644
--- a/mindmeld/resource_loader.py
+++ b/mindmeld/resource_loader.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ def load_entity_map(self, entity_type):
             json_data = {}
         else:
             try:
-                with open(file_path, "r") as json_file:
+                with open(file_path, "r", encoding='utf-8') as json_file:
                     json_data = json.load(json_file)
             except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                 raise MindMeldError(