Decided to codecs instead of messing with manual decode/encode

mixins/templatemixin.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 import os
+import codecs
 
 from dateutil import parser
 
@@ -31,13 +32,13 @@ class TemplateMixin(object):
 
 		print "Rendering %s" % out_path
 
-		out_file = open(out_path, "wb")
-		out_file.write(result.encode('utf-8'))
+		out_file = codecs.open(out_path, 'wb', 'utf-8')
+		out_file.write(result)
 		out_file.close()
 
 
 	def read_content_file(self, path):
-		content_file = open(path, 'r')
+		content_file = codecs.open(path, 'r', 'utf-8')
 
 		result = {}
 

modules/sassassets.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 import os
+import codecs
 from pylibsass import sass
 
 from verdandi.mixins.messagemixin import MessageMixin
@@ -34,14 +35,14 @@ class SassAssets(MessageMixin, RenderMixin, AssetsMixin):
 		source_dir = os.path.dirname(source_path)
 		original_dir = os.getcwd()
 
-		sass_file = open(source_path, 'r')
-		css_file = open(dest_path, 'w')
+		sass_file = codecs.open(source_path, 'r', 'utf-8')
+		css_file = codecs.open(dest_path, 'w', 'utf-8')
 
 		os.chdir(source_dir)
 
-		sass_string = sass_file.read().decode('utf-8')
+		sass_string = sass_file.read()
 		css_string = sass.compile_str(sass_string)
-		css_file.write(css_string.encode('utf-8'))
+		css_file.write(css_string)
 
 		os.chdir(original_dir)