UnicodeDecodeError

[seed78]

Hello,

I tried to run the script with Python 3.8.1. But, I got this error. How could I solve it?

C:\citation map>python analyze_papers.py Library.csv

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "analyze_papers.py", line 233, in
titles_dict = read_titles(args.zotero_csv)
File "analyze_papers.py", line 77, in read_titles
for r in reader:
File "C:\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 1593: character maps to

[A-Fitz]

I solved this problem by manually setting the encoding for the open() function used when reading the titles from the Zotero CSV. Specifically, in the read_titles() function, update line 74 to the following (using whatever encoding your CSV uses):

with open(zotero_csv, 'rt', encoding='utf8') as csvfile:

[erdemunal35]

Or just use the "Western" Character Encoding while exporting the .csv file in Zotero