Decode todo items to Unicode internally.

Quite a puzzle to get this right for Python 2 and 3 simultaneously...

test/TodoFileTest.py

+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Topydo - A todo.txt client written in Python.
 # Copyright (C) 2014 Bram Schoenmakers <me@bramschoenmakers.nl>
 #
@@ -23,7 +25,12 @@ class TodoFileTest(TopydoTest):
     def test_empty_file(self):
         todofile = load_file('test/data/TodoFileTest1.txt')
 
-        self.assertEquals(len(todofile), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(len(todofile), 0)
+
+    def test_utf_8(self):
+        todofile = load_file('test/data/utf-8.txt')
+
+        self.assertEqual(todofile[0].source(), u'(C) ► UTF-8 test ◄' )
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

test/data/utf-8.txt

+(C) ► UTF-8 test ◄

topydo/lib/TodoFile.py

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 This module deals with todo.txt files.
 """
 
+import codecs
+
 class TodoFile(object):
     """
     This class represents a todo.txt file, which can be read from or written
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ class TodoFile(object):
         """ Reads the todo.txt file and returns a list of todo items. """
         todos = []
         try:
-            todofile = open(self.path, 'r')
+            todofile = codecs.open(self.path, 'r', encoding="utf-8")
             todos = todofile.readlines()
             todofile.close()
         except IOError: