When instantiating a Text instance from a file, set errors='replace' on open(), to handle encoding weirdness.

Author: davidmcclure

textplot/text.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def from_file(cls, path):
         :param path: The file path.
         """
 
-        return cls(open(path, 'r').read())
+        return cls(open(path, 'r', errors='replace').read())
 
 
     def __init__(self, text):