CSV report in Chinese and not English

Describe the bug

When requesting statistics CSV download (http://127.0.0.1:8089/stats/requests/csv), the report is in Chinese and not English.

Expected behavior

Report in English.

Actual behavior

Generated report CSV is in Chinese.

Steps to reproduce

Start locust, run any test, click on the “Download Data” tab, choose “Download request statistics CSV”.

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Python version: 3.6.9
• Locust version: 2.8.1
• Locust command line that you ran: locust
• Locust file contents (anonymized if necessary):

import time
from locust import HttpUser, task, between, constant

class QuickstartUser(HttpUser):
    wait_time = between(1, 5)

    @task
    def view_items(self):
        self.client.get("/administer-site.htm")
        self.client.get("/documentPack.htm?documentPackId=1")
        self.client.get("/documentPack.htm?documentPackId=2")
        wait_time = constant(1)

    def on_start(self):
        self.client.post("/login.htm", json={"username":"redacted", "password":"redacted"})

    def on_stop(self):
        self.client.post("/login.htm?action=signOut")

[lisenet]

VS code says it is UTF-8. If I reopen it as UTF-16 it does look like chinese, maybe that is the problem.

Thanks for checking. My app defaults to UTF-16, hence the Chinese characters. I’ll switch to UTF-8. This issue can be closed.

[cyberw]

If we really wanted to we could optionally include a BOM when writing the csv file (essentially adding encoding="utf-8-sig" when opening the file for writing) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57152985/what-is-the-difference-between-utf-8-and-utf-8-sig

But it is kind of considered to be invalid UTF-8 to do so https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/372692/should-utf-8-csv-files-contain-a-bom-byte-order-mark