'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 6276: invalid continuation 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 0xe7 in position 5: invalid continuation byte
pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.item', sep='|', names=m_cols , encoding='latin-1')