UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 186: ordinal not in range(128)

[sentry-io[bot]]

Sentry Issue: PROS-CLI-3-7P

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 186: ordinal not in range(128)
  File "D:\a\1\s\pros\serial\interactive\UploadProjectModal.py", line 119, in project_changed
  File "D:\a\1\s\pros\serial\interactive\UploadProjectModal.py", line 90, in update_comports
  File "D:\a\1\s\pros\serial\interactive\UploadProjectModal.py", line 51, in update_slots
  File "D:\a\1\s\pros\serial\devices\vex\v5_device.py", line 595, in used_slots
  File "D:\a\1\s\pros\serial\devices\vex\v5_device.py", line 605, in read_ini

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 186: ordinal not in range(128)

[HotelCalifornia]

https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros-cli/blob/779d0b5bbf393b2090a64db6cb5b1a94da6a972b/pros/serial/devices/vex/v5_device.py#L605

not sure why we've explicitly decided on ascii here

[HotelCalifornia]

on a related note, this should also probably specify encoding='utf8' (and possibly in other places too):

https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros-cli/blob/779d0b5bbf393b2090a64db6cb5b1a94da6a972b/pros/common/ui/init.py#L169

[omegaStag]

old will look into if it pops up again