UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 178: character maps to <undefined>

[jacovanderlaan]

Hi there,

I am testing your code on a vault of imported Notion files. I get the error
"UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 178: character maps to "
because Notion puts icons in the file:
🏭 Parties: [[bunq]]
🗃️ Products (Prof): [[Anki]]
I can manually remove these images but it would be nice if the code would ignore these characters.

Many thanks for the good work. It looks like this could help me a lot!

Regards,

Jaco

[giftcp]

I have forked the code with a potential fix of this problem. please check out my fork. I am not very familiar with github. I guess the proper approach would have been to create a new branch

[philcombiths]

I fixed this by editing the Note class init to import notes with encoding="utf-8"

[Ciges]

I have forked the code with a potential fix of this problem. please check out my fork. I am not very familiar with github. I guess the proper approach would have been to create a new branch

Thanks a lot, it works!

[Ciges]

Hello again,

I have forked the repository and made two modifications, getting the work begun by @giftcp :

• Modifications on how to open Obsidian notes to avoid UnicodeDecodeError and to recognize correctly the end of line
• Regular expressions are searched an replaced with MULTILINE flag on (^ matches the beginning of each line)

My fork is at https://github.com/Ciges/py-obsidianmd

Regards