unicode to utf-8

[gontajones]

Please post your current code, outputs and errors?
Are you using Python3,right?

Are you getting this error?

Output:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

You can use replace or ignore when decoding:

>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "strict")  
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
  invalid start byte
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "replace")
'\ufffdabc'
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "backslashreplace")
'\\x80abc'
>>> b'\x80abc'.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
'abc'