Decoding error

[alannabaker]

While running the skeleton with command
python3 server.py --path "/Users/ophan/Documents/KTCB/KTCB Research/"
getting error:
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 383: character maps to <undefined>

I strongly suspect it's due to the fact I have Spanish characters in my notes. I really don't want to remove them, nor do I particularly want to go back through the previous steps. Is there a way I can get it to decode my Spanish characters?
Characters used: ¿¡áéíóúñÁÉÍÓÚ