Encoding should be changed in 'report' section from system-specific to standart UTF-8

[kubikrubikvkube]

As mentioned in Python <=3.8 documentation

The default encoding is platform dependent (whatever locale.getpreferredencoding() returns)

When report tool is started on OS with environment encoding different from UTF-8 (CP-1252 for example), following error is occured

  File "C:\Users\kubikrubikvkube\dev\htcap_forked\htcap\htcap.py", line 83, in <module>
    Util(argv[1:], dbfile)
  File "C:\Users\kubikrubikvkube\dev\htcap_forked\htcap\core\util\util.py", line 43, in __init__
    run(args, util)
  File "C:\Users\kubikrubikvkube\dev\htcap_forked\htcap\core\util\base_util.py", line 61, in __init__
    self.main(args, opts, db_file)
  File "C:\Users\kubikrubikvkube\dev\htcap_forked\htcap\core\util\utilities\report.py", line 229, in main
    html = base_html % (css.read(), jsn, js.read(), html.read())
  File "C:\Users\kubikrubikvkube\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 5744: character maps to <undefined>

Process finished with exit code 1

I propose to not use platform dependent encoding, but always generate report in UTF-8 encoding.

[kubikrubikvkube]

Any updates on this pull request? It's been 2 years so far.