From f1c7233763f036a835bbc6a28cf2f26cc4609d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zrguo <49157727+LarFii@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:06:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid UTF-8 BOM

---
 lightrag/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lightrag/utils.py b/lightrag/utils.py
index 1eb8c98d..96b7bdc3 100644
--- a/lightrag/utils.py
+++ b/lightrag/utils.py
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ def wrap_embedding_func_with_attrs(**kwargs):
 def load_json(file_name):
     if not os.path.exists(file_name):
         return None
-    with open(file_name, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    with open(file_name, encoding="utf-8-sig") as f:
         return json.load(f)