falling back to ISO 8859

gistfile1.txt

diff --git a/pycounter/csvhelper.py b/pycounter/csvhelper.py
index d77c645..ef7f850 100644
--- a/pycounter/csvhelper.py
+++ b/pycounter/csvhelper.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class UnicodeReader(six.Iterator):
             self.fileobj = open(self.filename, 'rt',
                                 encoding=self.encoding, newline='')
         else:
-            self.fileobj = open(self.filename, 'rb')
+            self.fileobj = open(self.filename, 'rU')
         self.reader = csv.reader(self.fileobj, dialect=self.dialect,
                                  **self.kwargs)
         return self
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ class UnicodeReader(six.Iterator):
         row = next(self.reader)
         if six.PY3:
             return row
-        return [s.decode("utf-8") for s in row]
+        try:
+            return [s.decode("utf-8") for s in row]
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            # fall back to ISO 8859-1 if that fails
+            # but Python 3 will not get here.
+            return [s.decode("iso8859") for s in row]
 
     def __iter__(self):
         return self