This change specifies encoding to utf-8 to ensure cross-platform compatibility when opening files in text mode. This change specifies the encoding to utf-8 to ensure cross-platform compatibility when opening files in text mode. In this case when loading the json files for courts, variables, states, places, etc.
With this change, Windows users will have no problem when running tests due to court accents (specifically for puerto rico).
This change specifies encoding to utf-8 to ensure cross-platform compatibility when opening files in text mode. This change specifies the encoding to utf-8 to ensure cross-platform compatibility when opening files in text mode. In this case when loading the json files for courts, variables, states, places, etc.
With this change, Windows users will have no problem when running tests due to court accents (specifically for puerto rico).