diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 24aec92..189b26b 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def process_tokens(tokens):
 	line_buf = []
 
 	for (type, token, start, end, line) in tokens:
-		token = token.replace('\r\n', '\n')
+		token = token.decode('utf-8').replace('\r\n', '\n')
 		if type == tokenize.NEWLINE:
 			if line_buf:
 				accu.append(indent * '\t')