filename = os.path.join(self.metadir.root, file)
text = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8').read()
text = text.encode('utf-8')
filename = os.path.join(self.metadir.root, file)
text = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8').read()
text = text.encode('utf-8')