From 480a429f5a1e70f7d86535cc701992b070e3c072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn Jocher <glenn.jocher@ultralytics.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 16:03:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for *.yaml emojis on load (#5543)

Fix for Colab hub error:


```python
import yaml

with open('yolov5s.yaml', errors='ignore') as f:
     d = yaml.safe_load(f)  # model dict

print(d)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ReaderError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-1150b5143073> in <module>()
      2
      3 with open('yolov5s.yaml', errors='ignore') as f:
----> 4      d = yaml.safe_load(f)  # model dict
      5
      6 print(d)

6 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/yaml/reader.py in check_printable(self, data)
    142             position = self.index+(len(self.buffer)-self.pointer)+match.start()
    143             raise ReaderError(self.name, position, ord(character),
--> 144                     'unicode', "special characters are not allowed")
    145
    146     def update(self, length):

ReaderError: unacceptable character #x1f680: special characters are not allowed
  in "yolov5s.yaml", position 9
```
---
 models/yolo.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/models/yolo.py b/models/yolo.py
index c196d46f9efa..305f0ca0cc88 100644
--- a/models/yolo.py
+++ b/models/yolo.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def __init__(self, cfg='yolov5s.yaml', ch=3, nc=None, anchors=None):  # model, i
         else:  # is *.yaml
             import yaml  # for torch hub
             self.yaml_file = Path(cfg).name
-            with open(cfg, errors='ignore') as f:
+            with open(cfg, encoding='ascii', errors='ignore') as f:
                 self.yaml = yaml.safe_load(f)  # model dict
 
         # Define model