program crashes on Windows when trying to parse default settings json

[durandarthur]

https://github.com/lee-b/kobold_assistant/blob/2add917b6d3f31764bd2e9d97a9cd8c6ef841aef/src/kobold_assistant/default_settings.json#L82C7-L82C10

The emojis in the file above cause the parser to error because Python uses CP-1252 encoding by default, on Windows.

I've already found the answer, so you can close the issue:

Windows users need to make and set the PYTHONUTF8 environment variable to the value 1 Or alternatively, use the command line option -Xutf8.