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

AA-Turner · web-flow · commit 25b97289e444 · 2025-08-17T17:13:57.000+01:00
diff --git a/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py b/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ 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:
