UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xef

[ccholet]

Hello,

Thank you very much for this python library. It is very useful.

However sometimes, depending of the .sp file, I get an unicode decode error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 36: invalid continuation byte

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem ?
The encoding of my sp file seems to be ANSI.
I have tried to convert it into UTF-8, but it didn't solve the problem.

Thanks in advance.

Originally posted by @ccholet in #53 (comment)

[PierreGutierrez]

I tried the library and got the same issue.
"UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1: invalid continuation byte"

[Jseph-maker]

This can be corrected by modifying the 'sp.py file in the plugin folder. In the code it defines the encoding as UTF8. To correct you can either create a copy of the functions and switch the encoding or i just modified the original file and wrapped the function in a 'try' with the 'except' having a copy of the code but with 'ANSI' encoding.

[persalteas]

Same issue, solved it by editing the plugins\sp.py file and replacing the two occurrences of "utf-8" by "latin1".