Any type of quick fix/patch for codec problems? /u/MiracleNamedHope Python Education

So I’m trying to open and read this csv file into Spyder IDE and then the IDLE Shell as well. Both environments produce an error when I attempt this, and they both tell me:

‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xf1 in position 8982: invalid continuation byte

Reading around online, it appears to be something relating to a “codec registry”, which apparently relates to how the machine or interpreter is meant to interpret the code characters for various human languages. My data set is a Honduran household survey, and while most the answers are numeric, some are in Spanish, and the overall language used here is the Spanish language – although it does look like all the data was actually entered by an English language user because there are no distinctly Spanish characters (such as ñ) anywhere throughout a rather large text.

I’ve researched codecs some online hoping there is an easy code patch or import or module to make some type of conversion. But all I find are dense reading, maybe 10-20 pages, most of which seems unrelated to what I’m trying to do. But I can’t get my bearings within all of that to find some direction.

I have actually loaded, opened, read, selected, printed etc etc this exact dataset with SQL in Big Querry. And also with R language in Posit there was no problem to work with this data set.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get over this hurdle here? Thanks

So I’m trying to open and read this csv file into Spyder IDE and then the IDLE Shell as well. Both environments produce an error when I attempt this, and they both tell me:

‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xf1 in position 8982: invalid continuation byte

Reading around online, it appears to be something relating to a “codec registry”, which apparently relates to how the machine or interpreter is meant to interpret the code characters for various human languages. My data set is a Honduran household survey, and while most the answers are numeric, some are in Spanish, and the overall language used here is the Spanish language – although it does look like all the data was actually entered by an English language user because there are no distinctly Spanish characters (such as ñ) anywhere throughout a rather large text.

I’ve researched codecs some online hoping there is an easy code patch or import or module to make some type of conversion. But all I find are dense reading, maybe 10-20 pages, most of which seems unrelated to what I’m trying to do. But I can’t get my bearings within all of that to find some direction.

I have actually loaded, opened, read, selected, printed etc etc this exact dataset with SQL in Big Querry. And also with R language in Posit there was no problem to work with this data set.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get over this hurdle here? Thanks