From dd857aeccf8f280622bce442ebce3753e9e0bc5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <paul@aider.chat>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:12:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Handle file reading with encoding, ignore decoding
 errors

---
 aider/io.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/aider/io.py b/aider/io.py
index 5ab11f0d6..ce82c5bd2 100644
--- a/aider/io.py
+++ b/aider/io.py
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ class InputOutput:
             return self.read_image(filename)
 
         try:
+            # ignore decoding errors. ai!
             with open(str(filename), "r", encoding=self.encoding) as f:
                 return f.read()
         except FileNotFoundError: