utf-8 codec can't decode 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')

Example 3: encode file to utf-8 in java

String charset = "ISO-8859-1"; // or what corresponds
  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( 
      new InputStreamReader (new FileInputStream(file), charset));
  String line;
  while( (line = in.readLine()) != null) { 
    ....
  }

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