# Couldn't Reload, what's wrong

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/couldnt-reload-whats-wrong/19893>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/couldnt-reload-whats-wrong/19893 "2021-09-28T10:28:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/couldnt-reload-whats-wrong/19893/4 "2021-09-29T18:52:06Z")

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On Windows and Linux module reload worked well with files using UTF-8 encoding, but apparently macOS had trouble. I’ve [added explicit specification of the encoding](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/commit/44ad869db6ab9e937dda2be7d14bfd7472742f4b), so you reloading will work if you use special characters in the file from tomorrow. That said, I would still highly recommend to keep the source code ASCII and use translation infrastructure to add messages in different languages.

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