diff --git a/src/extract_otp_secrets.py b/src/extract_otp_secrets.py
index 02125cd..7bcddaf 100644
--- a/src/extract_otp_secrets.py
+++ b/src/extract_otp_secrets.py
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ def get_otp_urls_from_file(filename: str, args: Args) -> OtpUrls:
 
 def read_lines_from_text_file(filename: str) -> list[str]:
     if verbose: print(f"Reading lines of {filename}")
-    finput = fileinput.input(filename)
+    finput = fileinput.input(filename, encoding='utf-8')
     try:
         lines = []
         for line in (line.strip() for line in finput):
diff --git a/tests/extract_otp_secrets_test.py b/tests/extract_otp_secrets_test.py
index 505b606..c7d473c 100644
--- a/tests/extract_otp_secrets_test.py
+++ b/tests/extract_otp_secrets_test.py
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ from utils import (file_exits, quick_and_dirty_workaround_encoding_problem,
 qreader_available: bool = extract_otp_secrets.qreader_available
 
 
+# Quickfix comment
+#@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform.startswith("win") or not qreader_available or sys.implementation.name == 'pypy', reason="Quickfix")
+
+
 def test_extract_stdout(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
     # Act
     extract_otp_secrets.main(['example_export.txt'])
@@ -91,7 +95,6 @@ def test_extract_stdin_empty(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str], monkeypatch: py
     assert captured.err == 'WARN: stdin is empty\n'
 
 
-# @pytest.mark.skipif(not qreader_available, reason='Test if cv2 and qreader are not available.')
 def test_extract_empty_file_no_qreader(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
     if qreader_available:
         # Act
@@ -351,7 +354,6 @@ def test_normalize_bytes() -> None:
         'Before\\\\302\\\\277\\\\303\nname: enc: \\302\\277\\303\\244\\303\\204\\303\\251\\303\\211?\nAfter') == 'Before\\\\302\\\\277\\\\303\nname: enc: ¿äÄéÉ?\nAfter'
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform.startswith("win"), reason="Avoid encoding problems")
 def test_extract_verbose(capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str], relaxed: bool) -> None:
     # Act
     extract_otp_secrets.main(['-v', 'example_export.txt'])
diff --git a/tests/extract_otp_secrets_txt_unit_test.py b/tests/extract_otp_secrets_txt_unit_test.py
index 6e1c19b..c6fb84a 100644
--- a/tests/extract_otp_secrets_txt_unit_test.py
+++ b/tests/extract_otp_secrets_txt_unit_test.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Type:    totp
         self.assertEqual(count_files_in_dir('testout/qr'), 6)
 
     def test_extract_verbose(self) -> None:
-        if sys.implementation.name == 'pypy' or sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+        if sys.implementation.name == 'pypy':
             self.skipTest("Avoid encoding problems")
         out = io.StringIO()
         with redirect_stdout(out):