Accent not supported in rasa x stories

[Deprecated] Rasa X Community Edition
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Hi. I am working on a bot in French language for which I use a spacy-based pipeline. While I can define the values of an entity using accent marks in domain file, it seems that rasa-x does not support those entities as long as they present accents. For illustration, I have an entity defined in the domain as follows:

excerpt from the domain file:

entities:
- member
slots:
  member:
    type: rasa.shared.core.slots.CategoricalSlot
    initial_value: null
    auto_fill: true
    influence_conversation: true
    values:
    - père
    - mère

entity with accent mark cannot be saved in rasa x (observed in the stories and interactive pages)

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replacing accent with unicode seems to work but I am not sure if that is the way to go about it. Also those errors do not show up outside of rasa x interface.

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Thanks in advance for tips and explanations on this type of problem.

2

The above problem comes from what we believe is a bug in the storyReader (story_service.py) in which the utf-8 encoding is not specified. Our fix solve the problem. How should we go about making this change in Rasa open source? Can someone please let me know how where should I submit the bug fix? Thanks