From 8332461d204ec1d8b3b52c5d0e88c308fd29baa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Rau <bimac@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 13:33:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ensure utf-8 encoding in file-logger as well

---
 iblutil/util.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/iblutil/util.py b/iblutil/util.py
index 256514a..924ae8b 100644
--- a/iblutil/util.py
+++ b/iblutil/util.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def log_to_file(log='ibl', filename=None):
     elif not Path(filename).is_absolute():
         filename = Path.home().joinpath('.ibl_logs', filename)
     filename.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
-    file_handler = logging.FileHandler(filename)
+    file_handler = logging.FileHandler(filename, encoding='utf-8')
     file_format = logging.Formatter(LOG_FORMAT_STR, LOG_DATE_FORMAT)
     file_handler.setFormatter(file_format)
     file_handler.name = f'{log.name}_file'