encoding

[xsayo]

When the source json files is encoded for ex. in windows-1252 it gets:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 3131: invalid start byte

Probably io module would be the solution.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38518023/unicodedecodeerror-utf8-codec-cant-decode-byte-0x80-in-position-3131-invali