Explicitly setting encoding in tokenization_utils_base.py #38553
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Add encoding explicitly
What does this PR do?
Problem:
When loading tokenizers, specifically those that utilize a chat_template.jinja file (e.g., THUDM/GLM-4-9B-0414), a UnicodeDecodeError can occur in certain environments. This happens because the open() call defaults to the system's preferred encoding, which can unexpectedly revert to ASCII (ANSI_X3.4-1968) within subprocesses, particularly in torch.distributed settings or isolated container environments.
The root cause is that these subprocesses may not correctly inherit LANG, LC_ALL, or LC_CTYPE environment variables from the parent shell, leading locale.getpreferredencoding() to return ASCII instead of UTF-8. This results in the following traceback when encountering non-ASCII bytes (e.g., 0xe5) in the chat_template.jinja file:
Solution:
This PR explicitly sets the encoding="utf-8" parameter when opening the file. It then works as expected.
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