UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x9c

Question

I have a socket server that is supposed to receive UTF-8 valid characters from clients.

The problem is some clients (mainly hackers) are sending all the wrong kind of

Answer 1

I have resolved this problem using this code

df = pd.read_csv(gdp_path, engine='python')

Answer 2

Just in case of someone has the same problem. I'am using vim with YouCompleteMe, failed to start ycmd with this error message, what I did is: export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8", the problem is gone.

Answer 3

the first,Using get_encoding_type to get the files type of encode:

import os    
from chardet import detect

# get file encoding type
def get_encoding_type(file):
    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
        rawdata = f.read()
    return detect(rawdata)['encoding']

the second, opening the files with the type:

open(current_file, 'r', encoding = get_encoding_type, errors='ignore')

Answer 4

I have solved this problem just by adding

df = pd.read_csv(fileName,encoding='latin1')