add utf-8 while reading README
Can you please add encoding to this line as well to fix the issue (and maybe replace `path.open(...)` with `open(path, ...)`)?
https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/7bee4be44706a59b084b9b69c4cd00f73ee72f76/src/datasets/utils/metadata.py#L58 Sure, in fact even I was thinking of adding this in order to maintain the consistency!
It was causing tests to fail in Windows (see #2416). In Windows, the default encoding is CP1252 which is unable to decode the character byte 0x9d 