Similar issue here:
I have a system which was upgraded from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS recently.
Since then I get the weekly errors from /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index as 
shown below.
I have already purged python and xapian and re-installed them but no change.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 111, in <module>
    indexer.rebuild(opts.pkgfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 758, in rebuild
    self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 733, in buildIndex
    for doc in documents:
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 580, in 
gen_documents_apt
    yield self.get_document_from_apt(pkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 543, in 
get_document_from_apt
    addon.obj.index(document, pkg)
  File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/descriptions.py", line 108, in index
    self.indexer.index_text_without_positions(version.raw_description)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 499, in 
raw_description
    return self._records.long_desc
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 48: 
invalid continuation byte
run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index exited with return code 1

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  Running update-apt-xapian-index -vf ends with error

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