Non-ASCII character '\xb7' of xlsm file - python

I am trying to run vba_extract.py in Visual Studio by IronPython. The compilation returns an error:
An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.Scripting.SyntaxErrorException' occurred in IronPython.dll
Additional information: Non-ASCII character '\xb7' in file ../../python/vba_extract.py ../../../tests/test.xlsm on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
I searched this issue, and added encoding in Line 2 of vba_extract.py:
#!python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
But it still does not work.
Additionally, I tried the following two lines, which returned the same error:
engine.ExecuteFile(#"../../python/irrelevant.py ../../../tests/test.xlsm");
engine.ExecuteFile(#"../../tests/test.xlsm");
So I guess the problem is from the encoding of test.xlsm.
Could anyone help?

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