'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 0: invalid start byte

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Hi experts,

I am using odoo version 10, community versionGot this error while uploading a list of products. I checked for any typos and so on but nothing is found. Can someone pls tell me how to rectify this. Any help will be much appreciated as I am a beginner in odoo.

Thanks

Mohammed Amal N · Accepted Answer

Hi
This link may help you  utf8-codec-can-t-decode-byte-error-when-importing-a-list-of-products-as-a-csv-file-40340 [1]

[1] https://www.odoo.com/forum/help-1/question/utf8-codec-can-t-decode-byte-error-when-importing-a-list-of-products-as-a-csv-file-40340

carlhyde · Answer

This will solve UnicodeDecodeError :
df.read_csv('file_name.csv', engine='python')
The pd.read_csv documentation notes specific differences between 'c' (default) and 'python' engines. The names indicate the language in which the parsers are written.
Files store bytes, which means all unicode have to be encoded into bytes before they can be stored in a file. The pandas read_csv() takes an encoding option to deal with files in different formats. So, you can specify an encoding, such as utf-8.
df.r

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