Trying to run the Google Colab notebook as is, getting inundated with an error

[TeaDrinkingHacker]

_/usr/lib/python3.9/encodings/ascii.py in decode(self, input, final)
24 class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):
25 def decode(self, input, final=False):
---> 26 return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
27
28 class StreamWriter(Codec,codecs.StreamWriter):

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 149: ordinal not in range(128)_

I've tried:

• changing the input file to my own
• resaving my own explicitly as utf-8 encoded
• reading in my file as a df then saving back to TXT with encoding on
  None made a difference, please help.

[lucy3]

Have you tried f = open(file_path, 'r+', encoding="utf-8")

[TeaDrinkingHacker]

Thanks for the reply Lucy, yes I have. Error remained the same.

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