pitivi (UnicodeDecodeError) _newProjectLoadingCb → _setScenarioFile → decode

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding pitivi. This problem was most recently seen with package version 0.99-2, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/4661dc71aaa3ed958acb58e57ea04dea58ad1338 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/application.py", line 259, in _newProjectLoadingCb
    self._setScenarioFile(uri)
  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pitivi/python/pitivi/application.py", line 254, in _setScenarioFile
    content = project.read().replace("\n", "")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 54: invalid start byte