Answers for "utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 1: invalid start byte"

'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 715: invalid start byte

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(filename, encoding= 'unicode_escape')

Posted by: Guest on March-19-2020

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte invalid start byte

# Use 'ISO-8859-1' instead of "utf-8" for decoding
text = open(fn, 'rb').read().decode('ISO-8859-1')

Posted by: Guest on September-23-2020

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