diff --git a/scripts/manifest_fixer.py b/scripts/manifest_fixer.py
index 55d0fd1..d80a617 100755
--- a/scripts/manifest_fixer.py
+++ b/scripts/manifest_fixer.py
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
     if args.extract_native_libs is not None:
       add_extract_native_libs(doc, args.extract_native_libs)
 
-    with open(args.output, 'wb') as f:
+    with open(args.output, 'w') as f:
       write_xml(f, doc)
 
   # pylint: disable=broad-except