updates

src/logic/csvparser.py

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ def csv_to_list(path: str) -> list[str]:
     """
     Extracts the data from a csv file and returns it as a pandas dataframe
     """
-    with open(path, newline="") as csvfile:
+    with open(path, newline="", encoding="utf-8") as csvfile:
+        # if decoder fails to map, assign ""
         reader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=";", quotechar="|")
         ret = []
         for row in reader: