def _get_content(self, filename=None, content=None):
        try:
            return super(AppleStringsHandler, self)._get_content(filename, content)
        except UnicodeError, e:
            return self._get_content_from_file(filename, self.default_encoding)
Try decoding a file with UTF-8, too.
dataset/ETHPy150Open rvanlaar/easy-transifex/src/transifex/transifex/resources/formats/strings.py/AppleStringsHandler._get_content