fix: make sure to default utf-8 as encoding and strip unwanted single…

[andyfcx]

… or double quotes

Proposed change

Type of change:

• [x] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Additional information

• This PR fixes or closes issue: fixes #12

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[D4Vinci]

Nice catch @andyfcx This fix will be deployed with the next version with your name, of course. Nice work again!