From 3642f5917c2072ab6e990eede7c6ef1b2b82b8ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yijia-Xiao <yijia-xiao@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:43:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: add explicit UTF-8 encoding to all file open() calls

Prevents UnicodeEncodeError on Windows where the default encoding
(cp1252/gbk) cannot handle Unicode characters in LLM output.

Closes #77, closes #114, closes #126, closes #215, closes #332
---
 cli/main.py                          | 8 ++++----
 tradingagents/graph/trading_graph.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cli/main.py b/cli/main.py
index fb97d189..adda48fc 100644
--- a/cli/main.py
+++ b/cli/main.py
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ def update_display(layout, spinner_text=None, stats_handler=None, start_time=Non
 def get_user_selections():
     """Get all user selections before starting the analysis display."""
     # Display ASCII art welcome message
-    with open("./cli/static/welcome.txt", "r") as f:
+    with open("./cli/static/welcome.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         welcome_ascii = f.read()
 
     # Create welcome box content
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ def run_analysis():
             func(*args, **kwargs)
             timestamp, message_type, content = obj.messages[-1]
             content = content.replace("\n", " ")  # Replace newlines with spaces
-            with open(log_file, "a") as f:
+            with open(log_file, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 f.write(f"{timestamp} [{message_type}] {content}\n")
         return wrapper
     
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ def run_analysis():
             func(*args, **kwargs)
             timestamp, tool_name, args = obj.tool_calls[-1]
             args_str = ", ".join(f"{k}={v}" for k, v in args.items())
-            with open(log_file, "a") as f:
+            with open(log_file, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 f.write(f"{timestamp} [Tool Call] {tool_name}({args_str})\n")
         return wrapper
 
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ def run_analysis():
                 content = obj.report_sections[section_name]
                 if content:
                     file_name = f"{section_name}.md"
-                    with open(report_dir / file_name, "w") as f:
+                    with open(report_dir / file_name, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                         f.write(content)
         return wrapper
 
diff --git a/tradingagents/graph/trading_graph.py b/tradingagents/graph/trading_graph.py
index 7944e5f5..c7ef0f98 100644
--- a/tradingagents/graph/trading_graph.py
+++ b/tradingagents/graph/trading_graph.py
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ class TradingAgentsGraph:
         with open(
             f"eval_results/{self.ticker}/TradingAgentsStrategy_logs/full_states_log_{trade_date}.json",
             "w",
+            encoding="utf-8",
         ) as f:
             json.dump(self.log_states_dict, f, indent=4)