Fix UnicodeDecodeError when running yamllint
under certain Windows code pages
#711
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This PR addresses an issue where running
yamllint
(via pre-commit) on Windows with a non-UTF-8 code page (like CP1254) could trigger a UnicodeDecodeError. The problem occurred because yamllint was attempting to read and decode the file contents using the default system encoding, which didn’t properly handle certain characters.To fix this, I updated the file-reading logic to:
And it worked well:

Thanks for reviewing.