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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/util.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/util.py b/pym/portage/util.py
index 780c9b5f1..a12b8a18e 100644
--- a/pym/portage/util.py
+++ b/pym/portage/util.py
@@ -387,7 +387,11 @@ def getconfig(mycfg, tolerant=0, allow_sourcing=False, expand=True):
# trailing newline after the source statement
# NOTE: shex doesn't seem to supported unicode objects
# (produces spurious \0 characters with python-2.6.2)
- content = open(mycfg).read()
+ if sys.hexversion < 0x3000000:
+ content = open(mycfg, 'rb').read()
+ else:
+ content = open(mycfg, mode='r',
+ encoding='utf_8', errors='replace').read()
if content and content[-1] != '\n':
content += '\n'
except IOError, e: