fix: Set encoding when calling open()

Otherwise the platform default will be taken, for example on Windows
this is not utf8.

Fixes #10849

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/dev/generate_ui_types.py b/scripts/dev/generate_ui_types.py
index 2e770e9fb..928764e07 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/generate_ui_types.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/generate_ui_types.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def parse(path, file):
 
 builder_names = []
 
-with out_path.open(mode='w') as file:
+with out_path.open(mode='w', encoding='utf8') as file:
     file.write(IMPORTS)
     for path in paths:
         if path.name.endswith('~'):
diff --git a/scripts/update_translations.py b/scripts/update_translations.py
index 678057417..4574dd8ef 100644
--- a/scripts/update_translations.py
+++ b/scripts/update_translations.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ TRANSLATABLE_FILES = [
 
 
 def template_is_equal(old_template_path: Path, new_template: str) -> bool:
-    with open(old_template_path, 'r') as f:
+    with open(old_template_path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
         old_template = f.read()
 
     pattern = r'"POT-Creation-Date: .*\n"'
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def update_translation_template() -> bool:
         # No new strings were discovered
         return False
 
-    with open(TRANS_TEMPLATE, 'w') as f:
+    with open(TRANS_TEMPLATE, 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
         f.write(template)
     return True