Text element with UTF-8 can't be saved

[MarkJeronimus]

Text element with unicode can't be saved:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "svgo.inkscape.py", line 75, in
e.affect(output=False)
File "D:\0syncedSSD\Portable Progs\InkscapePortable x64\App\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 268, in affect
self.effect()
File "svgo.inkscape.py", line 70, in effect
sys.stdout.write(result.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 128197: ordinal not in range(128)

0xC3 is the beginning of UTF-8 codepoint \xC3\x97 (this character: ×)

[smartcodingxx]

Same issue while optimizing SVG using svgo

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "svgo.inkscape.py", line 75, in
e.affect(output=False)
File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions/inkex.py", line 283, in affect
self.effect()
File "svgo.inkscape.py", line 70, in effect
sys.stdout.write(result.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 5401098: ordinal not in range(128)

[juanfran]

could you try in the last release?

[tzeumer]

I had the same problem and the new release fixed it for me. Great :)