UnicodeDecodeError (Python)

Question

I’m installing google assistant on raspberry pi using snowboy. While running the code I got this error: UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec cant decode bye 0x80 in position 24: invalid start byte.
This is the code that I wrote:
https://code.sololearn.com/cOfpY13qVIrz/?ref=app

Answer 1

I far as I can tell, you are trying to read a b64 file in a UTF-8 system. That is bound to cause some errors as UTF-8 and b64 are not compatible.
I am not sure with how you can resolve that but opening a file as bytes (raw bytes), might help.