configparser : which encoding on windows?

Question

My Python3 project works well on Linux but I got a problem with the configparser module on Windows. Every files of my own are encoded using UTF-8/unicode.

The following code :

    CONFIG_INI = configparser.ConfigParser()
    CONFIG_INI.read( "config.ini" )

raises an error when launched from cmd.exe :

    [..., from c:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp1252.py]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 [...]

So, why does my program use the CP1252 encoding instead of the unicode one ? I can't see on the configparser page how to set a specific encoding.

Any idea ? Thank you !

possible duplicate of [ConfigParser with Unicode items](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1648517/configparser-with-unicode-items) — Piotr Dobrogost, Jul 23 '13 at 19:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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In ConfigParser with Unicode items they offer:

cfg.readfp(codecs.open("myconfig", "r", "utf8"))

Have you tried that? Cheers!

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Jul 23 '13 at 14:50

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It works ! But I don't understand why my program uses, on Windows, the cp1252 encoding to read a file ... ? – suizokukan Jul 23 '13 at 16:08
Thank you very much for the link. – suizokukan Mar 23 '16 at 20:22

configparser : which encoding on windows?

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