UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 894: character maps to <undefined>

[SidrahJunaid]

im using Anaconda 3,python 3.5 on windows

[tusharkgerg]

I had a similar error where ascii codec couldn't decode unicode characters in the file - solved it by reading file as binary and decoding it to ascii. Used the following code for all of the data files
with open(law_data_file, 'rb') as unicodefile:
ufile = unicodefile.read()
asciitext = ufile.decode('ascii','ignore')
law_examples = asciitext.splitlines()

Hope this helps solve your problem.