Ignoring errors when using robjects.

[Gribouillis]

The character encoding could be latin-1 (iso8859-1)

>>> x = b'\xa3'
>>> x.decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 0: invalid start byte
>>> x.decode('latin-1')
'£'

There may be a way to tell the library that it must use the latin-1 encoding instead of utf-8.