UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd2 in position 16: invalid cont

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Mar-26-2023, 12:12 PM (This post was last modified: Mar-26-2023, 12:12 PM by Gribouillis.)

(Mar-26-2023, 10:37 AM)Melcu54 Wrote: can you uodate my code as to work with Chardet module?

No, but you could try the following in a terminal / cmd tool to guess your file's encoding

Output:
python -m chardet.cli.chardetect FILENAME

For example I have a file named 'ham' and here is the output with this command

Output:λ python -m chardet.cli.chardetect ham
ham: ascii with confidence 1.0

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RE: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd2 in position 16: invalid cont - by Gribouillis - Mar-26-2023, 12:12 PM

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