Markdown template parser cannot decipher UTF-8 Unicode strings about docassemble HOT 2 CLOSED

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/webapp/server.py", line 2713, in index
    interview = docassemble.base.interview_cache.get_interview(yaml_filename)
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/base/interview_cache.py", line 20, in get_interview
    the_interview = interview_source.get_interview()
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/base/parse.py", line 144, in get_interview
    return Interview(source=self)
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/base/parse.py", line 2011, in __init__
    self.read_from(kwargs['source'])
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/base/parse.py", line 2067, in read_from
    question = Question(document, self, source=source, package=source_package, source_code=source_code)
  File "/usr/share/docassemble/local/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docassemble/base/parse.py", line 1074, in __init__
    self.content = TextObject(definitions + unicode(data['content']), names_used=self.mako_names)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 96: ordinal not in range(128)