UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to <undefined>

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On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM,  <bellcanadardp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan  wrote:
> >> > It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback and
> >> > you'll see lib\encodings\cp1252.py. Since cp1252 seems to be the wrong
> >> > encoding, try opening it as utf-8 or latin1 and see if that fixes it.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot ! utf-8 and latin1 were accepted !
> >
> > hello i am having same issue..i believe the code is written in python 2 and i am running python 3.6..i tried at the interpreter..f =
> > open(filename, encoding="utf-8" and also latin-1..but then when i run my file i still get the error...also my line is at 7414..how do you find this line??...is it better to try to run the file .py in python 2??..thnxz
> 
> You're responding to something from 2009.
> 
> Your file is apparently not encoded the way you think it is. You'll
> have to figure out what it ACTUALLY is.
> 
> ChrisA


hello Chris
thank you for the reply, but how exactly am i supposed to find oout what is the correct encodeing??