scan failed when well-hidden encoding bug came at the scene

mdmaug/bin/firefox_mdmaug_writer.py

@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ while True:
     else:
         method = "w"
         files_encountered.add(file)
-    with open(file, method) as f:
-        f.write(message["text"])
+    with open(file, method +"b") as f:  # without writing as bytes, some pages end up with UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)
+        f.write(message["text"].encode("utf-8"))