Fails with non-ascii chars about ogr2osm HOT 8 CLOSED

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/simon/src/ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 639, in <module>
    parseData(data)
  File "/home/simon/src/ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 345, in parseData
    parseLayer(translations.filterLayer(layer))
  File "/home/simon/src/ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 402, in parseLayer
    parseFeature(translations.filterFeature(ogrfeature, fieldNames, reproject), fieldNames, reproject)
  File "/home/simon/src/ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 419, in parseFeature
    feature.tags = getFeatureTags(ogrfeature, fieldNames)
  File "/home/simon/src/ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 392, in getFeatureTags
    return translations.filterTags(tags)
  … Translation file, line where the concatenation takes place
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

$ ./ogr2osm.py -v ~/m/35DSE250GC_SIR.shp 
running with lxml.etree
Preparing to convert file '/home/naoliv/m/35DSE250GC_SIR.shp' to '/tmp/d/ogr2osm/35DSE250GC_SIR.osm'.
Will try to detect projection from source metadata, or fall back to EPSG:4326
Using default translations
Using default filterLayer
Using default filterFeature
Using default filterTags
Using default filterFeaturePost
Using default preOutputTransform
Parsing data
Detected projection metadata:
GEOGCS["SIRGAS 2000",
    DATUM["SIRGAS2000",
        SPHEROID["Geodetic_Reference_System_of_1980",6378137,298.2572221009113]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
    UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
Merging points
Making list
Checking list
Outputting XML
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ogr2osm.py", line 642, in <module>
    output()
  File "./ogr2osm.py", line 610, in output
    tag = etree.Element('tag', {'k':unicode(key,'utf-8'), 'v':unicode(value, 'utf-8')})
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcd in position 4: unexpected end of data