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If Python output is redirected to a pipe, sys.stdout encoding is 
ASCII. So "2to3 script.py|cat" will write the patch in ASCII. If the 
script contains a non-ASCII character, 2to3 fails with:
 ...
 File ".../lib2to3/refactor.py", line 238, in refactor_file
 self.processed_file(str(tree)[:-1], filename, write=write)
 File ".../lib2to3/refactor.py", line 342, in processed_file
 self.print_output(diff_texts(old_text, new_text, filename))
 File ".../main.py", line 48, in print_output
 print(line)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xfb' in 
position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
Should we consider the input file and stdout as binary files? 
Workaround: modify the files in place (-w option) but don't write the 
patch to stdout (no such option yet).
A project may contain scripts in ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8 (eg. Python 
source code ;-)).