From dab87ca23650fd87184ff5286b53e6985b59f71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:30:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [cookies] Containers JSON should be opened as utf-8 (#7800)

Closes #7797
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/cookies.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/cookies.py b/yt_dlp/cookies.py
index 157f5b0c2bf..a71fbc28baa 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/cookies.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/cookies.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def _extract_firefox_cookies(profile, container, logger):
         containers_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(cookie_database_path), 'containers.json')
         if not os.path.isfile(containers_path) or not os.access(containers_path, os.R_OK):
             raise FileNotFoundError(f'could not read containers.json in {search_root}')
-        with open(containers_path) as containers:
+        with open(containers_path, encoding='utf8') as containers:
             identities = json.load(containers).get('identities', [])
         container_id = next((context.get('userContextId') for context in identities if container in (
             context.get('name'),