Fix TBs when the system is not in utf-8 by default

(force every file opening to be with the utf-8 encoding)

5 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/common.py b/src/common.py
index 46306cdb..3b80fa34 100644
--- a/src/common.py
+++ b/src/common.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def get_os_info():
                     # yes, then run it and get the first line of output.
                     text = get_output_of_command(path_to_file)[0]
                 else:
-                    fdes = open(path_to_file)
+                    fdes = open(path_to_file, encoding='utf-8')
                     text = fdes.readline().strip() # get only first line
                     fdes.close()
                     if path_to_file.endswith('version'):
diff --git a/src/config.py b/src/config.py
index 8a0c322c..6bcc139e 100644
--- a/src/config.py
+++ b/src/config.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Config(RawConfigParser):
     def __init__(self, file_name):
         self.file_name = file_name
         RawConfigParser.__init__(self, None)
-        RawConfigParser.read(self, file_name)
+        RawConfigParser.read(self, file_name, encoding='utf-8')
         # Check config integrity and fix it if it’s wrong
         for section in ('bindings', 'var'):
             if not self.has_section(section):
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class Config(RawConfigParser):
         exist
         """
         if path.exists(self.file_name):
-            df = open(self.file_name, 'r')
+            df = open(self.file_name, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
             lines_before = (line.strip() for line in df.readlines())
             df.close()
         else:
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class Config(RawConfigParser):
             result_lines.append('%s = %s' % (option, value))
 
 
-        df = open(self.file_name, 'w')
+        df = open(self.file_name, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
         for line in result_lines:
             df.write('%s\n' % line)
         df.close()
diff --git a/src/fifo.py b/src/fifo.py
index 8306e24b..7db4b160 100644
--- a/src/fifo.py
+++ b/src/fifo.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class OpenTrick(threading.Thread):
         self.path = path
 
     def run(self):
-        open(self.path, 'r').close()
+        open(self.path, 'r', encoding='utf-8').close()
 
 
 class Fifo(object):
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class Fifo(object):
             self.trick = OpenTrick(path)
             # that thread will wait until we open it for writing
             self.trick.start()
-        self.fd = open(path, mode)
+        self.fd = open(path, mode, encoding='utf-8')
 
     def write(self, data):
         """
diff --git a/src/roster.py b/src/roster.py
index 12c529ba..ac25d525 100644
--- a/src/roster.py
+++ b/src/roster.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class Roster(object):
         if p.isfile(path):
             return
         try:
-            f = open(path, 'w+')
+            f = open(path, 'w+', encoding='utf-8')
             f.writelines([i + "\n" for i in self.contacts])
             f.close()
             return True
diff --git a/src/tabs.py b/src/tabs.py
index e3d2de36..60f98abc 100644
--- a/src/tabs.py
+++ b/src/tabs.py
@@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ class RosterInfoTab(Tab):
             self.core.information('The file %s does not exist' % filepath, 'Error')
             return
         try:
-            handle = open(filepath, 'r')
+            handle = open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
             lines = handle.readlines()
             handle.close()
         except IOError: