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-rw-r--r--git/refs/symbolic.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git/refs/symbolic.py b/git/refs/symbolic.py
index 60cfe554..bd41cb60 100644
--- a/git/refs/symbolic.py
+++ b/git/refs/symbolic.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class SymbolicReference(object):
"""Returns an iterator yielding pairs of sha1/path pairs (as bytes) for the corresponding refs.
:note: The packed refs file will be kept open as long as we iterate"""
try:
- with open(cls._get_packed_refs_path(repo), 'rt') as fp:
+ with open(cls._get_packed_refs_path(repo), 'rt', encoding='UTF-8') as fp:
for line in fp:
line = line.strip()
if not line: