From f8e6991fe40cd9874b26646031a62047ddb34085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdullah Aljelamneh <ajelamneh@pst.jo>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 20:18:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=90=9B=20Read=20email=20templates=20as=20?=
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---
 backend/app/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/app/utils.py b/backend/app/utils.py
index d59aefc7bf..9c71c29b6e 100644
--- a/backend/app/utils.py
+++ b/backend/app/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class EmailData:
 def render_email_template(*, template_name: str, context: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
     template_str = (
         Path(__file__).parent / "email-templates" / template_name
-    ).read_text()
+    ).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     template: Template = Template(template_str)
     html_content = template.render(context)
     return html_content