File encoding errors on Windows

[phyto]

Hi Moshi4,
Just to let you know that I got an error message when trying to use 1.4.0 on Windows. I installed using pip install pygenomeviz, everything went fine, but I got the following error message when importing pygenomeviz :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\XXX\YYY.py", line 11, in
from pygenomeviz import GenomeViz
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pygenomeviz_init_.py", line 3, in
from pygenomeviz.genomeviz import GenomeViz
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pygenomeviz\genomeviz.py", line 27, in
from pygenomeviz.viewer import setup_viewer_html
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pygenomeviz\viewer_init_.py", line 41, in
JS_CONTENTS = _concat_target_files_contents(assets_files, ".js")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pygenomeviz\viewer_init.py", line 18, in _concat_target_files_contents
contents += f.read() + "\n"
^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 5743: character maps to

I reverted to version 1.1.0 and everything is fine, but I thought it was better to let you know about this.
Thank you again for this great package!

[moshi4]

Try changing Python default encoding to UTF-8 by setting the environment variable PYTHONUTF8=1.
This will probably fix the error, but it is a bit strange that there is a difference in behavior between v1.1.0 and v1.4.0.

[phyto]

Yes, this fixed the error. Thank you!