tests: use encoding when opening files for checks and fixtures

so we don't fail on non utf-8 locales

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/component/__init__.py b/tests/component/__init__.py
index 7f9c7ff9..0dbbd95e 100644
--- a/tests/component/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/component/__init__.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class ComponentTestBase(unittest.TestCase, GbpLogTester):
         This assumes the hook was set too
             printenv > hookname.out
         """
-        with open('%s.out' % name) as f:
+        with open('%s.out' % name, encoding='utf-8') as f:
             parsed = dict([line[:-1].split('=', 1) for line in f.readlines() if line.startswith("GBP_")])
 
         for var in expected:
diff --git a/tests/component/deb/test_dch.py b/tests/component/deb/test_dch.py
index 053597e6..3d969b14 100644
--- a/tests/component/deb/test_dch.py
+++ b/tests/component/deb/test_dch.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class TestDch(ComponentTestBase):
         repo.commit_all(msg="test customizations")
         ok_(dch(['arg0', '-S', '-a', '--customizations=customizations.py']) == 0,
             "dch did no succeed as expected")
-        with open("debian/changelog") as f:
+        with open("debian/changelog", encoding='utf-8') as f:
             cl = f.read()
         ok_('* testentry\n' in cl)
         del gbp.scripts.dch.user_customizations['format_changelog_entry']