black formatter for python gives a decoding error "not a utf-8 character" How can I tell black to use 'UTF-16'?

on windows 11, with python 3.11trying to format any of my python.py filesI get this traceback

FINAL line says:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd2 in position 16: invalid continuation byte

E:\python\Projects\p2>python -m black --diff settings.pyTraceback (most recent call last):  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\black\__main__.py", line 3, in <module>    patched_main()  File "src\black\__init__.py", line 1602, in patched_main  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1157, in __call__    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1078, in main    rv = self.invoke(ctx)         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1434, in invoke    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\click\core.py", line 783, in invoke    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\click\decorators.py", line 33, in new_func    return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "src\black\__init__.py", line 668, in main  File "src\black\__init__.py", line 744, in get_sources  File "C:\Users\dickr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\black\files.py", line 254, in get_gitignore    lines = gf.readlines()            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decodeUnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd2 in position 16: invalid continuation byte

I've searched black documentation for an option to change encoding with no luck.google searched for the problem as it relates to black