diff --git a/scripts/add-bounds.py b/scripts/add-bounds.py
index 99c613a6..5b6a01e0 100644
--- a/scripts/add-bounds.py
+++ b/scripts/add-bounds.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ for path in Path(sys.argv[1]).rglob('*.svg'):
         # I'd rather avoid mangling the XML files by parsing them first
         # XML is awful and we never should have invented it :(
 
-        with open(path, "r") as file:
+        with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
             data = file.read()
 
         data = re.sub('viewBox="0 0', f'width="{width}" height="{height}" viewBox="0 0', data)
 
-        with open(path, "w") as file:
+        with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
             file.write(data)
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