Write settings files with the correct encoding

Author: Systemcluster

src/configuration/config.py

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def write(self, space_around_delimiters: bool = False):
                 self.config.write(file, space_around_delimiters)
             self.configLastWritten = deepcopy(self.config)
         if self.priority != self.priorityLastWritten:
-            with open(self.__userSettingsPath + '/mods.settings', 'w', encoding='utf-16') as file:
+            with open(self.__userSettingsPath + '/mods.settings', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
                 print(
                     f"writing mods.settings to {self.__configPath + '/mods.settings'}")
                 # proper-case all keys

src/domain/mod.py

@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ def installInputKeys(self) -> int:
                                 r"\[" + keycontext + r"\]\n",
                                 r"[" + keycontext + r"]\n" + str(key) + r"\n",
                                 text)
-            with open(data.config.settings + "/input.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-16") as userfile:
+            with open(data.config.settings + "/input.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-8") as userfile:
                 text = userfile.write(text)
         return added
 
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ def installUserSettings(self) -> int:
                     config.add_section(setting.context)
                 config.set(setting.context, setting.option, setting.value)
                 added += 1
-            with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-16") as userfile:
+            with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-8") as userfile:
                 config.write(userfile, space_around_delimiters=False)
         return added
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ def uninstallUserSettings(self):
             for setting in iter(self.usersettings):
                 if config.has_section(setting.context):
                     config.remove_option(setting.context, setting.option)
-            with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-16") as userfile:
+            with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-8") as userfile:
                 config.write(userfile, space_around_delimiters=False)
 
     def __repr__(self):

src/util/util.py

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def fixUserSettingsDuplicateBrackets():
                     for item in items:
                         config.set(newSection, item[0], item[1])
                 config.remove_section(section)
-        with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-16") as userfile:
+        with open(data.config.settings+"/user.settings", 'w', encoding="utf-8") as userfile:
             config.write(userfile, space_around_delimiters=False)
     except:
         print("fixing duplicate brackets failed")