tags: Force UTF-8 encoding

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ranger/container/tags.py b/ranger/container/tags.py
index 1a751ffc..4d4e6c59 100644
--- a/ranger/container/tags.py
+++ b/ranger/container/tags.py
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ class Tags(FileManagerAware):
 
     def sync(self):
         try:
-            with open(self._filename, "r", errors="replace") as fobj:
+            with open(
+                self._filename, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"
+            ) as fobj:
                 self.tags = self._parse(fobj)
         except (OSError, IOError) as err:
             if exists(self._filename):
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ class Tags(FileManagerAware):
 
     def dump(self):
         try:
-            with open(self._filename, 'w') as fobj:
+            with open(self._filename, 'w', encoding="utf-8") as fobj:
                 self._compile(fobj)
         except OSError as err:
             self.fm.notify(err, bad=True)