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UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xb6 in position 136: invalid start byte

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I got the following error when trying to read a file off a network drive for use by Pandas: UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last) pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens() pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype() pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert() pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8() UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xb6 in position 136: invalid start byte During handling of the above…(Continue Reading)