#🔒 trying to read a file

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violet marten
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i get this error
File "file", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 329: character maps to <undefined>
file may have some bad characters, how do i ignore them?

tribal siloBOT
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@violet marten

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nova fossil
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show the code

this is often a solution, so i'll say it just in case: open the file in utf8 encoding

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open(path, encoding="utf8")

violet marten
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well there's nothing to show in the code

with open("achievements1.txt") as temp:
    myAch = temp.read()
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🔒 trying to read a file