@@ -340,11 +340,11 @@
     try:
         bin = pkgutil.get_data(file_base, fn)
         if gz:
             bin = gzip_decode(bin)
         if decode:
-            return bin.decode("utf-8")
+            return bin.decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
         else:
             return str(bin)
     except:
         pass
 
@@ -396,11 +396,11 @@
             src = zipfile.ZipFile(fn, "r").read(intfn.strip("/"))
             
     if not src:
         src = ""
     if type(src) is not str:
-        src = src.decode("utf-8")
+        src = src.decode("utf-8", errors='replace')
 
     return plugin_meta_extract(src, fn)
 
 
 # Actual comment extraction logic