I was just just working with @cwetzker on compiling the docs locally and we ran into some unicode decode errors due to some special characters in the ngff-spec repo. Those appear on every spec branch in the build_footer function. There, the © and ® characters are used which are leading to trouble down the road.
Somehow it doesn't appear on every plattform (my machine doesn't complain), but there's probably a safer way to express these symbols.