From 2713ee9d2301335d93b70d9e419137e0da4100da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: puneet <puneet.kumar@investwellonline.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:44:06 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] character encoding

---
 lib/instrumentation/index.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/instrumentation/index.js b/lib/instrumentation/index.js
index 18e2d92a6ea..b7eb3577984 100644
--- a/lib/instrumentation/index.js
+++ b/lib/instrumentation/index.js
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Instrumentation.prototype._startHook = function () {
     if (!isHandlingLambda && basedir) {
       pkg = path.join(basedir, 'package.json')
       try {
-        version = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkg)).version
+        version = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(pkg, 'utf8')).version
       } catch (e) {
         self._agent.logger.debug('could not shim %s module: %s', name, e.message)
         return exports