--- a/contrib/check-code.py	Fri Aug 10 00:37:24 2018 -0400
+++ b/contrib/check-code.py	Fri Aug 10 02:17:50 2018 -0400
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     opentext = open
 else:
     def opentext(f):
-        return open(f, encoding='ascii')
+        return open(f, encoding='latin1')
 try:
     xrange
 except NameError: