Merge pull request #1495 from johnhaddon/configEncodingFix

ConfigLoader : Specify encoding in calls to `open()`

Author: ericmehl

Changes

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 10.6.x.x (relative to 10.6.0.2)
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+Fixes
+-----
 
+- ConfigLoader : Fixed UnicodeDecodeErrors in non-UTF8 locales.
 
 10.6.0.2 (relative to 10.6.0.1)
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python/IECore/ConfigLoader.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def loadConfig( searchPaths, contextDict = {}, raiseExceptions = False, subdirec
 				fileContextDict["__file__"] = fullFileName
 
 				try :
-					with open( fullFileName ) as f :
+					with open( fullFileName, encoding = "utf-8" ) as f :
 						exec(
 							compile( f.read(), fullFileName, "exec" ),
 							fileContextDict, fileContextDict