Error when invoking pipreqs in a newly created VENV. UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 224: character maps to <undefined>

Version of Python being used is Python 3.10.11 Result of pip list in the venv.

Package            Version
------------------ -----------
afdko              4.0.0
appdirs            1.4.4
booleanOperations  0.9.0
Brotli             1.1.0
cchardet           2.1.7
certifi            2023.11.17
cffsubr            0.2.9.post1
chardet            5.2.0
charset-normalizer 3.3.2
click              8.1.7
colorama           0.4.6
commandlines       0.4.1
contourpy          1.2.0
cycler             0.12.1
defcon             0.10.3
dehinter           4.0.0
docopt             0.6.2
filetype           1.2.0
fleep              1.0.1
font-line          3.1.4
font-rename        0.2.0
font-v             2.1.0
fontMath           0.9.3
fontmeta           1.6.1
fontParts          0.12.1
fontPens           0.2.4
fonttools          4.47.0
foundrytools-cli   1.1.5
freetype-py        2.4.0
fs                 2.4.16
gitdb              4.0.11
GitPython          3.1.40
idna               3.6
ImageHash          4.3.1
kiwisolver         1.4.5
loguru             0.7.2
lxml               4.9.4
markdown-it-py     3.0.0
matplotlib         3.8.2
mdurl              0.1.2
MutatorMath        3.0.1
numpy              1.26.2
opentypesvg        1.1.5
packaging          23.2
pathvalidate       3.2.0
Pillow             10.1.0
pip                23.3.2
pipreqs            0.4.13
psautohint         2.4.0
pycairo            1.25.1
pyclipper          1.3.0.post5
PyFontConverter    1.0.2
Pygments           2.17.2
pyparsing          3.1.1
PyQt5              5.15.10
PyQt5-Qt5          5.15.2
PyQt5-sip          12.13.0
python-dateutil    2.8.2
python-fontbro     0.17.2
python-fsutil      0.13.0
PyWavelets         1.5.0
reportlab          4.0.8
requests           2.31.0
rich               13.7.0
scipy              1.11.4
setuptools         65.5.0
six                1.16.0
skia-pathops       0.8.0.post1
smmap              5.0.1
standardstreams    0.2.0
tqdm               4.66.1
ttfautohint-py     0.5.1
ufonormalizer      0.6.1
ufoProcessor       1.9.0
uharfbuzz          0.38.0
unicodedata2       15.1.0
urllib3            2.1.0
win32-setctime     1.1.0
yarg               0.1.9
zopfli             0.2.3

Running pipreqs . in the python\FontTools venv results in the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "D:\Dev\Powershell\VSYSModules\VSYSFontOps\python\FontTools\Scripts\pipreqs.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "D:\Dev\Powershell\VSYSModules\VSYSFontOps\python\FontTools\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 528, in main
    init(args)
  File "D:\Dev\Powershell\VSYSModules\VSYSFontOps\python\FontTools\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 455, in init
    candidates = get_all_imports(input_path,
  File "D:\Dev\Powershell\VSYSModules\VSYSFontOps\python\FontTools\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 115, in get_all_imports
    contents = f.read()
  File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\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 0x90 in position 224: character maps to <undefined>

Can someone please help me fix this?

Check this: https://github.com/bndr/pipreqs/issues/214