* Revert "[V3 Core] Encoding issue fix (#1365)"
This reverts commit f6903cf5820ec93833aced058622cb2f235ac22b.
* Don't let the system encoding screw with things,
specify opens as happening with utf-8 encoding
(cherry picked from commit c10e4dddca32a7a74978f2938359be8a65e7e40f)