From 2e92c6fb3a0e165ada41714f9c88af4f0cd3f624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:06:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix JSON encoding issue on load

---
 spacy/lemmatizer.py | 2 +-
 spacy/matcher.pyx   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/lemmatizer.py b/spacy/lemmatizer.py
index 9c8f0e716..78cd744cb 100644
--- a/spacy/lemmatizer.py
+++ b/spacy/lemmatizer.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class Lemmatizer(object):
                     exc[pos] = read_exc(file_)
             else:
                 exc[pos] = {}
-        with (path / 'vocab' / 'lemma_rules.json').open('rb') as file_:
+        with (path / 'vocab' / 'lemma_rules.json').open('r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
             rules = json.load(file_)
         return cls(index, exc, rules)
 
diff --git a/spacy/matcher.pyx b/spacy/matcher.pyx
index fbfa18c1e..de7622dca 100644
--- a/spacy/matcher.pyx
+++ b/spacy/matcher.pyx
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ cdef class Matcher:
     @classmethod
     def load(cls, path, vocab):
         if (path / 'gazetteer.json').exists():
-            with (path / 'gazetteer.json').open('rb') as file_:
+            with (path / 'gazetteer.json').open('r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
                 patterns = json.load(file_)
         else:
             patterns = {}