From bb121512c301e180b57606cea3659958da77e24c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koa Wells <kekoa.wells@concordia.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:55:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add utf-8 encoding when reading cities15000 file

---
 hub/helpers/geometry_helper.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hub/helpers/geometry_helper.py b/hub/helpers/geometry_helper.py
index f5b2617d..6806a84b 100644
--- a/hub/helpers/geometry_helper.py
+++ b/hub/helpers/geometry_helper.py
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class GeometryHelper:
     distance = math.inf
     country = 'Unknown'
     city = 'Unknown'
-    with open(_data_path, 'r') as f:
+    with open(_data_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
       for line_number, line in enumerate(f):
         fields = line.split('\t')
         file_city_name = fields[2]