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Raises SyntaxError when parsing files with umlauts.

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Bug report

What’s wrong

Hi, thanks for the plugin!

I use flake8 with flake8-pytest-style as a pre-commit hook. When I check Python files containing umlauts a SyntaxError is raised.

  File "C:\Users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\Scripts\flake8.EXE\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\main\cli.py", line 22, in main
    app.run(argv)
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\main\application.py", line 360, in run
    self._run(argv)
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\main\application.py", line 348, in _run
    self.run_checks()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\main\application.py", line 262, in run_checks
    self.file_checker_manager.run()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\checker.py", line 325, in run
    self.run_serial()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\checker.py", line 309, in run_serial
    checker.run_checks()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\checker.py", line 589, in run_checks
    self.run_ast_checks()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8\checker.py", line 496, in run_ast_checks
    for (line_number, offset, text, _) in runner:
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8_plugin_utils\plugin.py", line 75, in run
    self._load_file()
  File "c:\users\tobia\.cache\pre-commit\repo__2jv1f_\py_env-default\lib\site-packages\flake8_plugin_utils\plugin.py", line 91, in _load_file
    self._tree = ast.parse(''.join(self._lines))
  File "C:\tools\miniconda3\envs\gettsim\Lib\ast.py", line 47, in parse
    return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,
  File "<unknown>", line 184
    einführungsfaktor = 0.6 + 0.02 * (
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier