UTF-8 problem encoding and decoding in Python3

[Almar Klein]

Hi,

please tell us what you are trying to do. Encoding (with UTF-8) is a method
to convert a Unicode string to a sequence of bytes. Decoding does the
reverse.


When i open
> directly and try to decode the file the error is this: `UnicodeDecodeError:
> 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: unexpected code byte`
>

This means the series of byte that you are trying to convert to a string is
not valid UTF-8. It can't be, because it would not contain 0xff or 0xfe
bytes.


but when i try to encode the file in the server the encode change the parts
> of the file and the result is
> this:`\xc3\xbf\xc3\x98\xc3\xbf\xc3\xa0\x00\x10JFIF` without say that the
>

So here you *encode* the file, not decoding it.

  Almar
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