[PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Lets strictly read license files in utf-8

Nishanth Menon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Commit bc41a7f36469 ("LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license")
unfortunately introduced LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 in UTF-8 Unicode text
While python will barf at it with:

FAIL: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 244, in <module>
    spdx = read_spdxdata(repo)
  File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 47, in read_spdxdata
    for l in open(el.path).readlines():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128)

While it is indeed debatable if 'Licensor.' used in the license file
needs unicode quotes, instead, let us force spdxcheck to read utf-8
instead.

Reported-by: Rahul T R <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <[email protected]>
---
 scripts/spdxcheck.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
index 3e784cf9f401..ebd06ae642c9 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def read_spdxdata(repo):
                 continue
 
             exception = None
-            for l in open(el.path).readlines():
+            for l in open(el.path, encoding="utf-8").readlines():
                 if l.startswith('Valid-License-Identifier:'):
                     lid = l.split(':')[1].strip().upper()
                     if lid in spdx.licenses:
-- 
2.32.0
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