Uncaught UnicodeDecodeError in config.py line 465

[denisdifazio]

Aider version: 0.72.3
Python version: 3.12.8
Platform: Linux-5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Python implementation: CPython
Virtual environment: Yes
OS: Linux 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (64bit)
Git version: git version 2.46.1

An uncaught exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aider", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "main.py", line 720, in main
    git_root = setup_git(git_root, io)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "main.py", line 133, in setup_git
    user_name = config.get_value("user", "name", None)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "config.py", line 793, in get_value
    valuestr = self.get(section, option)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "config.py", line 113, in assure_data_present
    self.read()
  File "config.py", line 630, in read
    self._read(fp, fp.name)
  File "config.py", line 465, in _read
    line = fp.readline().decode(defenc)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb3 in position 41: invalid start byte

This happens when i try to open aider in a dir with a git project. I tried erasing the existing .git folder and let aider create it, but the same error occurs.

[denisdifazio]

The problem was my .gitconfig file at root. It contained some custom configuration for delta diff