From c112eadc1188b7ae5e541dcb41ecec4cfc4a1289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thor Whalen <1906276+thorwhalen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:40:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Read normalizer fixtures as UTF-8 explicitly: the ASCII-art
 fixture broke the Windows job (cp1252) in #28

---
 tests/test_normalizer.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_normalizer.py b/tests/test_normalizer.py
index 40d37d1..4a13d12 100644
--- a/tests/test_normalizer.py
+++ b/tests/test_normalizer.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@
 
 
 def _case(name):
-    return (FIXTURES / f"{name}.in").read_text(), (FIXTURES / f"{name}.out").read_text()
+    """The ``.in`` and ``.out`` texts; UTF-8 explicitly, the ASCII-art fixture has box characters."""
+    return (
+        (FIXTURES / f"{name}.in").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
+        (FIXTURES / f"{name}.out").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
+    )
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", CASES)