declared unicode encoding

[brando56894]

I'm American and every time I would execute the script it would crash, complaining of foreign characters since it's using ASCII encoding and not Unicode, explicitly declaring this resolves the issue.

[sersorrel]

UTF-8 is the default source encoding in Python 3.

[brando56894]

Interesting, I have en_US.UTF-8 set as my default locale, but it still would error out unless I explicitly stated it in the source code.