From ff7e6fcda3c08184e88dc3070ef2f0537fba47ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WorldTeacher <41587052+WorldTeacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 07:40:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add encoding detection

---
 src/logic/csvparser.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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 = []