'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 118: character maps to <undefined> code example
Example 1: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 6148: character maps to
Add encoding:
file = open(filename, encoding="utf8")
Example 2: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in pfd
#read file as rb mode
file_path = f"E:\Project\ezzytrace\media\Invoices\Fedex_invoices\{file_name}"
with open(file_path,'rb' ) as f:
file_data = f.read()
response = HttpResponse(file_data, content_type='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = f'attachment; filename="{file_name}"'
return response