UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte X in position Y: character maps to

Question

I\'m trying to get a Python 3 program to do some manipulations with a text file filled with information. However, when trying to read the file I get the following error:

Answer 1

Before you apply the suggested solution, you can check what is the Unicode character that appeared in your file (and in the error log), in this case 0x90: https://unicodelookup.com/#0x90/1 (or directly at Unicode Consortium site http://www.unicode.org/charts/ by searching 0x0090)

and then consider removing it from the file.