From 721595ef04183f613fa00ba5b8d227a7fa2862fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 08:47:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure config file is always opened with UTF-8

---
 kitty/config.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/config.py b/kitty/config.py
index 0f2bf4ac8..f5cd7d84e 100644
--- a/kitty/config.py
+++ b/kitty/config.py
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ def load_config(*paths, overrides=None) -> Options:
         if not path:
             continue
         try:
-            f = open(path)
+            f = open(path, encoding='utf-8')
         except FileNotFoundError:
             continue
         with f: