unicodedecodeerror: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 16: 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
text = open(fn, 'rb').read().decode('ISO-8859-1')
Example 3: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
with open(file, newline='', encoding="utf16") as MyFile: