From 5887e43248bfceac9de1e586c2e2241c9222ec55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Veiko Aasa <veiko.aasa@nlib.ee>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:58:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1829

---
 gluon/widget.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gluon/widget.py b/gluon/widget.py
index 73836bc7..756a95ef 100644
--- a/gluon/widget.py
+++ b/gluon/widget.py
@@ -1288,9 +1288,10 @@ end tell
         line = py2exe_getline(filename, lineno, *args, **kwargs)
         if not line:
             try:
-                f = open(filename, "r")
+                f = open(filename, "rb")
                 try:
                     for i, line in enumerate(f):
+                        line = line.decode('utf-8')
                         if lineno == i + 1:
                             break
                     else: