How to solve UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte in python

There is a Python library which may help when the encoding is unknown: chardet

with open(filename, 'rb') as file:
    print(chardet.detect(file.read()))

detect finds the encoding, and ‘rb’ will read the file in as binary

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