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failed: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte ..

See original GitHub issue

Hey guys,

I tried to scan for e-mails and got the following error:

2022-06-09 04:21:47,904 [INFO] sfwebui : Waiting for the scan to initialize...
Process Process-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Anaconda3\envs\spiderfoot\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 297, in _bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Anaconda3\envs\spiderfoot\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 99, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Downloads\spiderfoot\sfscan.py", line 30, in startSpiderFootScanner
    return SpiderFootScanner(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Downloads\spiderfoot\sfscan.py", line 202, in __init__
    tld_data = self.__sf.cacheGet("internet_tlds", self.__config['_internettlds_cache'])
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Downloads\spiderfoot\sflib.py", line 303, in cacheGet
    return fp.read()
  File "C:\Users\d.tran\Anaconda3\envs\spiderfoot\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 10466: character maps to <undefined>

After a littler reasearch I found out that, this error is caused by the missing encoding during opening the cache file in sflib.py - line 302. Dunno whether this is the correct way to solve it, but I wanna share it for all other people which having problems.

Note: Forgive my, maybe, not correct way to inform you about this. It’s the first I’am doing this.

Cheers, Daniel ✌️