From def97f658c016d4c50fe9d682265841154eb5336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: HideLord <polimonom@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:54:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Small patch to fix loading of character jsons. Now it
 correctly reads non-ascii characters on Windows.

---
 modules/chat.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/chat.py b/modules/chat.py
index f40f8299..4a7fb873 100644
--- a/modules/chat.py
+++ b/modules/chat.py
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ def load_character(_character, name1, name2):
     shared.history['visible'] = []
     if _character != 'None':
         shared.character = _character
-        data = json.loads(open(Path(f'characters/{_character}.json'), 'r').read())
+        data = json.loads(open(Path(f'characters/{_character}.json'), 'r', encoding='utf-8').read())
         name2 = data['char_name']
         if 'char_persona' in data and data['char_persona'] != '':
             context += f"{data['char_name']}'s Persona: {data['char_persona']}\n"