From 8bb9cecfc0a2f11aeb2132c12876720033670bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A_D <aunderscored@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:08:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Explanation comment on try/except

---
 EDMC.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/EDMC.py b/EDMC.py
index 9552fa4c..04701313 100755
--- a/EDMC.py
+++ b/EDMC.py
@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ sys.path: {sys.path}'''
         if args.j:
             logger.debug('Import and collate from JSON dump')
             # Import and collate from JSON dump
+            #
+            # Try twice, once with the system locale and once enforcing utf-8. If the file was made on the current
+            # system, chances are its the current locale, and not utf-8. Otherwise if it was copied, its probably
+            # utf8. Either way, try the system FIRST because reading something like cp1251 in UTF-8 results in garbage
+            # but the reverse results in an exception.
             try:
                 data = json.load(open(args.j))
             except UnicodeDecodeError: