From 7a0c6fa97334e43ab027a47ceba0d5a6a049949c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sander Roosendaal <roosendaalsander@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:47:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] save kml file as utf-8

---
 rowers/views.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rowers/views.py b/rowers/views.py
index 554d9083..2d7be89f 100644
--- a/rowers/views.py
+++ b/rowers/views.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvas
 import gc
 from pyparsing import ParseException
 from uuid import uuid4
-
+import codecs
 import isodate
 
 from django.shortcuts import render
@@ -1867,7 +1867,7 @@ def course_kmlemail_view(request,id=0):
 
     kmlfilename = 'course_{id}.kml'.format(id=id)
 
-    with open(kmlfilename,'w') as fop:
+    with codecs.open(kmlfilename,'w','utf-8') as fop:
         fop.write(kmlstring)
 
     res = myqueue(queuehigh,handle_sendemailkml,