From 23654ba8032639fbb48189c3f4f576e278177567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Poruri Sai Rahul <rporuri@enthought.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:40:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] FIX : Set encoding when saving svg file

the failure was observed when running enable.gcbench on windows

	modified:   kiva/svg.py
---
 kiva/svg.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kiva/svg.py b/kiva/svg.py
index 5183e85c6..6980f4aef 100644
--- a/kiva/svg.py
+++ b/kiva/svg.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def height(self):
         return self.size[1]
 
     def save(self, filename, file_format=None, pil_options=None):
-        with open(filename, "w") as f:
+        with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
             if ext == ".svg":
                 template = xmltemplate