[3.14] GH-137841: Open tzdata/zones file with UTF-8 encoding (GH-137872) (#141607)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py b/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
index d8ccec82059391c4be71cad4bd9b8b566a548cf0..177d32c35eff29625c2edaea6489a3e45641c77f 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
+++ b/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ def available_timezones():
     # Start with loading from the tzdata package if it exists: this has a
     # pre-assembled list of zones that only requires opening one file.
     try:
-        with resources.files("tzdata").joinpath("zones").open("r") as f:
+        zones_file = resources.files("tzdata").joinpath("zones")
+        with zones_file.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             for zone in f:
                 zone = zone.strip()
                 if zone: