From 87b6fc0afe413417a53be6d6e20669e1f9efe5cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: haeussma <83341109+haeussma@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:07:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor file reading in AgilentRDLReader to specify UTF-8
 encoding

---
 chromatopy/readers/agilent_rdl.py | 2 +-
 chromatopy/tools/analyzer.py      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chromatopy/readers/agilent_rdl.py b/chromatopy/readers/agilent_rdl.py
index e37115e..bd71268 100644
--- a/chromatopy/readers/agilent_rdl.py
+++ b/chromatopy/readers/agilent_rdl.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def read(self):
 
     @staticmethod
     def read_file(file_path: str) -> list[str]:
-        with open(file_path, "r") as file:
+        with open(file_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
             lines = file.readlines()
 
         return lines
diff --git a/chromatopy/tools/analyzer.py b/chromatopy/tools/analyzer.py
index e8e6335..59db731 100644
--- a/chromatopy/tools/analyzer.py
+++ b/chromatopy/tools/analyzer.py
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ def read_agilent(
                     found_lines = "found no startswith ┌─────"
             except UnicodeDecodeError:
                 error = "UnicodeDecodeError"
-                txt_paths = txt_paths
+
         except StopIteration:
             error = "StopIteration"
             txt_paths = txt_paths