diff --git a/src/logic/csvparser.py b/src/logic/csvparser.py
index 846a257..3734bb3 100644
--- a/src/logic/csvparser.py
+++ b/src/logic/csvparser.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import csv
 
-import pandas as pdf
-
+import chardet
 
 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="", encoding="utf-8") as csvfile:
+    encoding = chardet.detect(open(path, "rb").read())["encoding"]
+    with open(path, newline="", encoding=encoding) as csvfile:
         # if decoder fails to map, assign ""
         reader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=";", quotechar="|")
         ret = []