From ad0090d0d23e938e8a2107777a83e6c6b92494d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:58:06 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [cookies] Local State should be opened as utf-8 Closes #1276

---
 yt_dlp/cookies.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/cookies.py b/yt_dlp/cookies.py
index 5f7fdf584..c9ae9b6db 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/cookies.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/cookies.py
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ def _get_windows_v10_key(browser_root, logger):
     if path is None:
         logger.error('could not find local state file')
         return None
-    with open(path, 'r') as f:
+    with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
         data = json.load(f)
     try:
         base64_key = data['os_crypt']['encrypted_key']