saving vector UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbc in position 1: invalid start byte code example
Example 1: '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')
Example 2: 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')