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Reputation: 3

'charmap' codec can't encode character but the mentionned character isn't in the input file

I'm trying to decode an EBCDIC file with the following Python code :

from os import path
import ebcdic

VERSION_EBCDIC = "cp1147"

def decodeEbcdic(inputDir, outputDir):

    for root, subdirectories, files in walk(inputDir):

        for subdirectory in subdirectories:

            #do nothing

        for file in files:
            print(file)

            f = open(path.join(root, file),'rb')
            inputData = f.read()
            f.close()

            outputData = inputData.decode(VERSION_EBCDIC)

            f = open(path.join(outputDir, file),'w')
            f.write(outputData)
            f.close()

decodeEbcdic(INPUT_DIR_EBCDIC, OUTPUT_DIR_ASCII)

I get the following error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x8e' in position 9: character maps to <undefined>.

But, watching the input file with HxD I can't see the mentionned byte: hexadecimal description of the begginning of the input file

In fact, the byte 8E doesn't appear in the whole input file. nor does the byte E8.

But maybe I don't understand correctly the error message.

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