Alwrity - Bug fixes

lib/github_blogs/main_getting_started_blogs.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def blog_from_github(github_opts, flag):
     elif 'csv' in flag:
         try:
             gh_urls = []
-            with open(github_opts, 'r') as file:
+            with open(github_opts, 'r', encoding="utf-8") as file:
                 # Read each line in the file
                 for gh_url in file:
                     gh_urls.append(gh_url.strip())

lib/github_blogs/scrape_github_readme.py

@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ def check_if_already_written(github_url, file_path='papers_already_written_on.tx
         bool: True if an exact match is found, False otherwise.
     """
     try:
-        with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
+        with open(file_path, 'r', encoding="utf-8") as file:
             # Read each line in the file
             for line in file:
                 # Check for an exact match