From 79bd7d4122077bbd5fd9721b7c528596664bdf97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Cecile <35971201+AlexanderCecile@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:36:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Tell requests to detect encoding.

Changed the get_file_by_url function to infer/guess the encoding of the content we receive.
---
 updateHostsFile.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index 3e2b00185..b8d64a29c 100644
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -1467,7 +1467,9 @@ def maybe_copy_example_file(file_path):
 
 
 def get_file_by_url(url, params, **kwargs):
-    return requests.get(url=url, params=params, **kwargs).text
+    req = requests.get(url=url, params=params, **kwargs)
+    req.encoding = req.apparent_encoding
+    return req.text
 
 
 def write_data(f, data):