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diff --git a/git/refs/symbolic.py b/git/refs/symbolic.py
index 4784197c..aa449528 100644
--- a/git/refs/symbolic.py
+++ b/git/refs/symbolic.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ class SymbolicReference(object):
tokens = None
repodir = _git_dir(repo, ref_path)
try:
- with open(osp.join(repodir, ref_path), 'rt') as fp:
+ with open(osp.join(repodir, ref_path), 'rt', encoding='UTF-8') as fp:
value = fp.read().rstrip()
# Don't only split on spaces, but on whitespace, which allows to parse lines like
# 60b64ef992065e2600bfef6187a97f92398a9144 branch 'master' of git-server:/path/to/repo