From 7a9e4a62e3c5ba0535701d98ea3ea88892594f9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rany2 <rany2@riseup.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 23:52:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Specify encoding on metadata fname open in save()

---
 src/edge_tts/communicate.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/edge_tts/communicate.py b/src/edge_tts/communicate.py
index 2c14322..5c04c06 100644
--- a/src/edge_tts/communicate.py
+++ b/src/edge_tts/communicate.py
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ class Communicate:
             audio = open(audio_fname, "wb")
             metadata = None
             if metadata_fname is not None:
-                metadata = open(metadata_fname, "w")
+                metadata = open(metadata_fname, "w", encoding="utf-8")
 
             async for message in self.stream():
                 if message["type"] == "audio":