UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 06:53:27 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:

> This is the nature of Unicode pain in Python 2 (Python 3 has a different
> kind!).  This may help you understand what's going on:
> http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

That's a fantastic explanation, and I have pointed Nikos at that before, 
but he is running Python 3, not 2, so the obvious problem is not likely 
to be the actual problem.


-- 
Steven