Index: docutils/test/test_functional.py
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--- docutils/test/test_functional.py	(revision 7036)
+++ docutils/test/test_functional.py	(working copy)
@@ -171,7 +171,10 @@
         no_expected = self.no_expected_template % {
             'exp': expected_path, 'out': params['destination_path']}
         self.assert_(os.access(expected_path, os.R_OK), no_expected)
-        f = open(expected_path, 'r') # ! 'rb' leads to errors with Python 3!
+        if sys.version_info < (3,0):
+            f = open(expected_path, 'r')
+        else:
+            f = open(expected_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') # ! 'rb' leads to errors with Python 3!
         # Normalize line endings:
         expected = '\n'.join(f.read().splitlines())
         f.close()
Index: docutils/test/test_io.py
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--- docutils/test/test_io.py	(revision 7036)
+++ docutils/test/test_io.py	(working copy)
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
         try:
             open(u'\xfc'.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'replace'))
-        except IOError:
+        except IOError, e:
             uioe = e
     if locale:
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C') # reset