From f7040f922c0afe0fd406efb8e823549fb2863d6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Dietrich <nicodietrich@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 00:19:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow unicode items in config file

---
 beets/ui/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/ui/__init__.py b/beets/ui/__init__.py
index e2eebb738..e19e005f1 100644
--- a/beets/ui/__init__.py
+++ b/beets/ui/__init__.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import logging
 import sqlite3
 import errno
 import re
+import codecs
 
 from beets import library
 from beets import plugins
@@ -673,7 +674,7 @@ def main(args=None, configfh=None):
     if configpath:
         configpath = util.syspath(configpath)
         if os.path.exists(util.syspath(configpath)):
-            configfh = open(configpath)
+            configfh = codecs.open(configpath, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
         else:
             configfh = None
     if configfh: