cz bump - Overwrites my cz.yaml emoji

Description

When I run a cz bump it overwrites my config file .cz.yaml and changes all my emojis to there \U* equivalents

Steps to reproduce

.cz.yaml File with any link of 🚀
cz bump --increment PATCH
look at the file .cz.yaml 🚀 can been converted to \U0001F680

Current behavior

it's changing all the emojis

Desired behavior

Leave the emojis untouched

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After bump

Environment

# cz version                            
3.27.0

# python3 -V
Python 3.12.3

# python3 -c "import platform;print(platform.system())"
Darwin

I "guess" this might be something related to encoding or the lib yaml. But could you please share the config you're using in text for us to try to reproduce? Thanks!

Triage from #1964: Confirmed still valid on master (4.15.1). commitizen/config/yaml_config.py (line 69) calls yaml.dump(config_doc, yaml_file, explicit_start=True) without allow_unicode=True, so PyYAML escapes non-ASCII characters into \Uxxxx. Two-line fix; tagging as good first issue material.

Verification update (re #1964)

Reproduced against current master (4.15.1):

.cz.yaml before bump:

commitizen:
  name: cz_conventional_commits
  version: 0.1.0
  tag_format: "v$version"
  bump_message: "🚀 chore(release): bump $current_version to $new_version"

After cz bump --increment PATCH --yes:

---
commitizen:
  bump_message: "\U0001F680 chore(release): bump $current_version to $new_version"
  name: cz_conventional_commits
  tag_format: v$version
  version: 0.1.1

The emoji 🚀 is escaped to \U0001F680.

Verdict: STILL VALID. Two-line fix in commitizen/config/yaml_config.py:69:

yaml.dump(config_doc, yaml_file, explicit_start=True, allow_unicode=True)

Same change should be applied at commitizen/config/yaml_config.py:33 (init_empty_config_content) for consistency.

Suitable as a good first issue.

fix(config): preserve unicode characters when writing yaml config

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cz bump - Overwrites my cz.yaml emoji #1164

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cz bump - Overwrites my cz.yaml emoji #1164

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Lee-W commented on Aug 11, 2024

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