unicodedecodeerror: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 59: 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: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 10: invalid start byte
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
text = f.read()