From 4d8b6c811e7eb7f9526a63a5097d6e349caee873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: schrmh <32062480+schrmh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:21:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

CJK characters, umlauts and Unicode as well as Unicode PUA symbols don't cause a problem anymore.

Fixes #32 #33 #34 #35
---
 msbt.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/msbt.py b/msbt.py
index 58f5ab5..063d7ce 100755
--- a/msbt.py
+++ b/msbt.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 import argparse
+import codecs
 import json
 import os.path
 import re
@@ -186,7 +187,9 @@ def to_json(self, filename):
 
         output['structure']['LBL1']['lists'] = self.sections['LBL1']['data']
 
-        json.dump(output, open(filename, 'w'), indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)
+        json_str = json.dumps(output, indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)
+        with codecs.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
+            file.write(json_str)
 
     def from_json(self, filename):
         json_data = json.load(open(filename, 'r'))