encoding utf-8 when opening the settings json file

[MujurID]

the default cp1252 codec can't decode characters by bytes.... In my case, since I'm on Windows, I'll be given the Windows-1252 8bit character set. Setting encoding to utf-8 overrides this. this is for some list of character names in Mudae. """ Traceback (most recent call last): File "MudaeAutoBot.py", line 32, in settings = json.load(jsonf) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json_init_.py", line 293, in load return loads(fp.read(), File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\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 0x8d in position 5852: character maps to """