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Python: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

Feb 27 '14 at 10:15

I'm trying SFTP Read Directory Listing(Python) of your example code.
http://www.example-code.com/python/sftp_readDir.asp
Here's the error message.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/chilkat/workspace/PythonTest/test.py", line 103, in <module>
    print(fileObj.filename())
  File "C:/Python33/lib/site-packages/chilkat.py", line 5601, in filename
46 files~!!
    def filename(self): return _chilkat.CkSFtpFile_filename(self)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 0: invalid start byte

I'm using python33 and eclipse on MS Windows. Please let me know how to fix this problem.

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Answer

The "Utf8" property can be set to True to indicate that Chilkat should return utf-8 strings, and also interpret input string arguments as utf-8. (When Utf8 is False, which is the default, then ANSI strings are expected and returned by the Chilkat API.)

For example:

# indicate that input/output strings should be utf-8
sftp.put_Utf8(True)