Answers for "Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0xa0"

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')

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 1968: invalid start byte

pd.read_csv("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/Past.csv",encoding='cp1252')

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 10: invalid start byte

#use rb over r
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
  text = f.read()