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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1

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Hey guys I ran matlap2python on a matlab code but it seems like it gives me this exact error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arshia/Desktop/matlab2python/matlab2python.py", line 49, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/home/arshia/Desktop/matlab2python/matlab2python.py", line 44, in main
    mparser.matlab2python(opts.filelist,opts)
  File "/home/arshia/Desktop/matlab2python/matlabparser/parser.py", line 433, in matlab2python
    matlab2python(f,opts)
  File "/home/arshia/Desktop/matlab2python/matlabparser/parser.py", line 437, in matlab2python
    MF=MatlabFile(filename=filename)
  File "/home/arshia/Desktop/matlab2python/matlabparser/parser.py", line 185, in __init__
    self.raw_lines=f.readlines()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 242: invalid start byte

I will upload the matlab file to show what I mean exactly

matlab code.zip

The error seems to have migrated from smop cause smop had the same exact issue

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Created a year ago
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AA1999commented, Jul 31, 2022

I hope so too! I’ll close the Issue until I see another of the same. Tried on the codes and both worked!

Tyvm

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ebranlardcommented, Jul 31, 2022

Sounds good, I’ve submitted a small correction. Encoding errors are always a bit of a pain. The alternative would be to detect the encoding using chardet, but hopefully this workaround is enough.

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