Bug#914181: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 841: ordinal not in range(128)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.18.9

Something did not work in the transition from py27 to py3:

Steps:

$ apt-get source fop
$ cd fop-*
$ wrap-and-sort
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 317, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 302, in main
    modified_files = wrap_and_sort(args)
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 219, in wrap_and_sort
    if remove_trailing_whitespaces(copyright_file, args):
  File "/usr/bin/wrap-and-sort", line 176, in remove_trailing_whitespaces
    content = file_object.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position
841: ordinal not in range(128)

Thanks