lyx2lyx died with UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte if a
layout with a non-ASCII character in the file name was used, since the
textclass member of the LyX class was of type str, and not unicode.
self.initial_version = self.read_version()
# Second pass over header and preamble, now we know the file encoding
+ # Do not forget the textclass (Debian bug #700828)
+ self.textclass = self.textclass.decode(self.encoding)
for i in range(len(self.header)):
self.header[i] = self.header[i].decode(self.encoding)
for i in range(len(self.preamble)):