Comment 2 for bug 783726

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "scour.inkscape.py", line 77, in <module>

    e.affect(output=False)

  File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 223, in affect

    self.parse()

  File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 151, in parse

    self.document = etree.parse(stream)

  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2692, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:49594)

  File "parser.pxi", line 1522, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71582)

  File "parser.pxi", line 1552, in lxml.etree._parseFilelikeDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71892)

  File "parser.pxi", line 1435, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFilelike (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:70807)

  File "parser.pxi", line 997, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFilelike (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67948)

  File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63824)

  File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64745)

  File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64088)

lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !

Bytes: 0xFF 0x27 0x20 0x69, line 71, column 17

plain inkscpae SVG export seems fine, but file is afterward not renderable anymore