From ac208c177a7ac31a1336655c34aff9a4fce3533b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donald Tse <donaldtse118@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:42:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] simple fix for input/output filehandler with encoding utf-8

---
 ics_splitter.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ics_splitter.py b/ics_splitter.py
index fac1aa6..f5f46a2 100644
--- a/ics_splitter.py
+++ b/ics_splitter.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         print('ERROR: output file already exists! As a safety check, this script will not overwrite an ICS file')
         exit()
 
-    infh = open(in_fname, 'r')
+    infh = open(in_fname, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
 
     # parsing constants
     BEGIN_CALENDAR = 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR'
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     event_count = 0
     out_event_count = 0
 
-    with open(out_fname, 'w') as outfh:
+    with open(out_fname, 'w', encoding='utf-8')) as outfh:
         for line in infh:
             if in_preamble and line.startswith(BEGIN_EVENT):
                 in_preamble = False