From d99ae442c9561ba1fe95b7e6125b5ea788752952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dmiller <dmiller@e0a8ed71-7df4-0310-8962-fdc924857419>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:20:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use UTF-8 to read config file. Fixes #3116

---
 zenmap/zenmapCore/UmitConfigParser.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zenmap/zenmapCore/UmitConfigParser.py b/zenmap/zenmapCore/UmitConfigParser.py
index f48a6b88d..6bb948971 100644
--- a/zenmap/zenmapCore/UmitConfigParser.py
+++ b/zenmap/zenmapCore/UmitConfigParser.py
@@ -78,8 +78,13 @@ class UmitConfigParser(ConfigParser):
     def read(self, filename):
         log.debug(">>> Trying to parse: %s" % filename)
 
-        if ConfigParser.read(self, filename):
-            self.filenames = filename
+        for enc in ('utf-8', None):
+            try:
+                if ConfigParser.read(self, filename, encoding=enc):
+                    self.filenames = filename
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                continue
+            break
 
         return self.filenames