Re: Started porting UDD to Python3 (Was: [UDD] Is there some effort to port UDD to Python3?)

[Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>]

And, ideally, somebody would contact whoever is providing that file so that they re-encode it with utf8...

On Thu, 14 May 2020, 9:16 pm Stéphane Blondon, <stephane.blondon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 14/05/2020 11:43, Andreas Tille wrote:
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 11: invalid continuation byte

The error is like [1] where the file is not encoded utf-8.

1:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5552555/unicodedecodeerror-invalid-continuation-byte


> +            f = open(trfile, encoding='utf-8')

`f = open(trfile, encoding='latin-1')`

could be a (temporary?) solution.


Regards,
Stéphane