Reading files as UTF-8, fixes #80

changelog.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Version 0.3.2 (2018-)
 - Allow `PASSWORD` to be numeric (Issue #108) @danielperna84
 - Sanity check for `ALLOWED_NETWORKS`, `BANNED_IPS` and `IGNORE_PATTERN` (Issue #109) @danielperna84
+- Reading files as UTF-8 (Issue #80) @danielperna84
 
 Version 0.3.1 (2018-07-15)
 - Fix SESAME / SESAME_TOTP_SECRET bug (Issue #103) @danielperna84

configurator.py

@@ -3749,8 +3749,8 @@ class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
                     if ENFORCE_BASEPATH and not is_safe_path(BASEPATH, filename):
                         raise OSError('Access denied.')
                     if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(BASEDIR.encode('utf-8'), filename)):
-                        with open(os.path.join(BASEDIR.encode('utf-8'), filename)) as fptr:
-                            content += fptr.read()
+                        with open(os.path.join(BASEDIR.encode('utf-8'), filename), 'rb') as fptr:
+                            content += fptr.read().decode('utf-8')
                     else:
                         content = "File not found"
             except Exception as err: