UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 434852: invalid continuation byte
python, xml
Solution
The problem looks like the file has characters represented with latin1 that aren't characters in utf8. The `file` utility can be useful for figuring out what encoding a file should be treated as, e.g:
monk@monk-VirtualBox:~$ file foo.txt
foo.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text
Here's what the bytes mean in latin1:
>>> b'\xe2'.decode('latin1')
'â'
Probably easiest is to convert the files to utf8.
Problem
I am using hfcca to calculate cyclomatic complexity for a c++ code. hfcca is a simple python script (https://code.google.com/p/headerfile-free-cyclomatic-complexity-analyzer/). When i am trying to run the script to generate the output in the form of an xml file i am getting following errors : ``` Traceback (most recent call last): "./hfcca.py", line 802, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "./hfcca.py", line 798, in main print(xml_output([f for f in r], options)) File "./hfcca.py", line 798, in <listcomp> print(xml_output([f for f in r], options)) File "/x/home06/smanchukonda/PREFIX/lib/python3.3/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 652, in next raise value UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 434852: invalid continuation byte ``` Please help me with this..