From 89f550d048d80dd265f2933e453565689b8414c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29 2019 21:43:35 +0000
Subject: Use encoding from DESCRIPTION when reading it.


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diff --git a/r2spec/rpackage.py b/r2spec/rpackage.py
index f5b5873..5114ea9 100644
--- a/r2spec/rpackage.py
+++ b/r2spec/rpackage.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class RPackage(object):
         self.log.info('Loading "%s"', description)
         if os.path.exists(self.name) and os.path.isfile(description):
             try:
-                stream = open(description, 'r')
+                stream = open(description, 'rb')
                 content = stream.read()
                 stream.close()
             except IOError as err:
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ class RPackage(object):
                     'An error occurred while reading the DESCRIPTION file: %s',
                     description)
                 self.log.debug('ERROR: %s', err)
+            encoding = re.search(b'^Encoding: (.+)$', content, re.MULTILINE)
+            if encoding is not None:
+                content = content.decode(encoding.group(1).decode().strip())
+            else:
+                content = content.decode('ascii')
             key = None
             for row in content.split('\n'):
                 if row.strip():