utf_8_encode() argument 1 must be str, not bytes

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Traceback (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\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\python-boilerplate.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\__main__.py", line 11, in main
    func(args)
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\commands\parser.py", line 41, in handler
    func(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\commands\parser.py", line 32, in handler
    writer.run()
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\commands\init.py", line 86, in run
    self.write('VERSION.txt', 'VERSION')
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\core.py", line 140, in write
    hash = write_template(template, context, ignore=ignore, path=path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\desco\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\python_boilerplate\jinja.py", line 67, in write_template
    F.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 721, in write
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 377, in write
TypeError: utf_8_encode() argument 1 must be str, not bytes