make it possibile to set encoding

[chrisdecker1201]

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[meretp]

Hi @chrisdecker1201, thanks for your contribution! This looks like a useful feature. Can you please add the signoff to your commits so that this can be merged? (see here

Also, I have one question out of curiosity: I would assume that you use the tools-python as a library and as you also spoke up for the feature to merge SPDX documents: How or in what context are you using the tools?

[chrisdecker1201]

@meretp Your assumption is correct 😄. We are getting a SPDX file from a third-party application and have to add additional SPDX information to this file. Therefore our developers should checkin this additional SPDX information into the repository and we are developing a tool for combining the files in the CI/CD process.

Additionally we use this to validate the SPDX file.

[meretp]

Thanks for adding the sign-off! I have some small remarks on the last changes.

[meretp]

Thanks for addressing the remarks, this looks good to me! And also thanks for sharing your usecase!