diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
index bd095c5..e80c806 100644
--- a/src/main.py
+++ b/src/main.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
             code = open(file, encoding="utf-8").read()
             tokens = tokenize.tokenize(code, file)
             ast = parse.parse(tokens, None)
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        except UnicodeError:
             pass
     else:
         ast = oldparse.parse_file(file)
diff --git a/src/oldparse.py b/src/oldparse.py
index 198bfd0..5e27787 100644
--- a/src/oldparse.py
+++ b/src/oldparse.py
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
 def parse_file(filename):
     try:
         code = open(filename, encoding="utf-8").read()
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+    except UnicodeError:
         print("Parse error: %s is not valid UTF-8" % (filename))
         return None
     try: