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meson: use encoding=utf-8 when reading/writing files in helper script

Tim-Philipp Müller requested to merge tpm/cairo:meson-force-utf8-file-encoding-in-scripts into master

Fixes errors such as

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\...\cairo\test\make-cairo-test-constructors.py", line 19, in <module>
    for l in f.readlines():
  File "c:\python39\lib\encodings\cp1253.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 6694: character maps to <undefined>

on non-English-language Windows locales/installations.

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