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Always explicitely use utf-8 when reading/writing files

Christoph Reiter requested to merge creiter/gi-docgen:always-use-utf-8 into main

It uses the locale encoding by default otherwise which is probably not what we want when generating files, and also explodes with Unicode on Windows.

Explicitely pass utf-8 as an encoding for all open() calls to fix this.

Note: Missing encoding arguments can be detected on all platforms starting with Python 3.10 if the PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING env var is set, see https://peps.python.org/pep-0597 for more details.

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