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Encoding error

S System Medium

🔴 Error Message

UnicodeDecodeError in Python script

📖 What This Means

File or data has unexpected character encoding.

🔧 Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Set encoding: open(file, encoding="utf-8")
  2. Use errors="ignore" or "replace"
  3. Check file encoding: file -i filename

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