Error while importing a csv file

Question

I tried importing a csv file using

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv("samle.csv")

But there is an error while importing the file :

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 28: invalid start byte

As i looked in the csv file, it had some characters like this: � How do i rectify this error?

Answer 1

Did you try:

df = pd.read_csv("samle.csv", encoding='ISO-8859-1')