UTF-8 support in .env

[dimadk24]

Hi, first of all, thanks for nice library! It's awesome software 👍
I need to use UTF-8 in .env and want to use python-decouple for this, but I suppose it won't work with UTF-8, because it doesn't pass encoding param to open function:
https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/blob/24cc51c7880b79d81b5a75c2d441a41428792aa6/decouple.py#L125
So it will fallback to locale.getpreferredencoding(), as specified in Python docs, which is platform dependent. On my Windows 10 its cp1251, but I want to write UTF-8 in .env and be sure it will be read correctly by python-decouple.
It would be nice, if we could pass encoding kwarg to config() and it will be used in open() (or default if this kwarg is not specified)
Feel free to notify me, if I can help with something

[henriquebastos]

This seems nice. Can you propose a PR adding a default argument to config to do the trick?

[dimadk24]

Sure, I'll do it in few days

[farzbood]

Hi Guys,
Since you're working on "Encoding", I've a concern on retrieving data from a UTF-8 .env file containing some "Persian/Farsi" string/text. When I get it back by "config()' it turns to another "charset/codpage", I tried to type the text in different editors, but the result is the same. FYI hereby is the original and retrieved values.It would be nice to let me know what's going on. Tnx
Code:config('COMPANY_NAME', default='ایده پردازان ارتباطات نوین')
.env:COMPANY_NAME=ایده پردازان ارتباطات نوین
Original:ایده پردازان ارتباطات نوین
Retrieved by config():'ایده پردازان ارتباطات نوین'

[dimadk24]

Hi, @farzbood, look like this issue is quite stale. I proposed PR more than year ago (now I see it's completely not ideal and should be updated), and there're no more updates on this

[farzbood]

Yeah, I visit that. I will try to contact the owner too.
Thank you for response though.
good Luck

[farzbood]

Great! It works perfectly nice.
Thank You.
Peace V