UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 4: character maps to <undefined>

[xofeoj]

Ran into the following issue:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 4: character maps to

Fixed by altering line 25 in textgenrnn.py to indicate the json vocab file is utf-8 encoded:

with open(vocab_path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as json_file:

[cedspam]

add errors='ignore' parameter too, json should be encoded in satandard ascii
with open(vocab_path, 'r', encoding='utf8', errors='ignore') as json_file:

[minimaxir]

I added the ignore parameter during the refactor. Let me know if there are still issues.

[NikulGoyani369]

I got the same error when I run my file
Please Help me
error is UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 819: character maps to

[cedspam]

adding encoding='utf8', errors='ignore' is a form of dirty fix for that when you dont know the file encoding, chardet would be the good option there

[hanumantha03]

I got this error when i opened the .pickle file normally. But when I gave open("filename.pickle", "rb") the error was gone