UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 698: invalid start byte

[ashifpm]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Ashif\Desktop\red-python-scripts-main\windows10-wifi.py", line 43, in
profile_info = subprocess.run(["netsh", "wlan", "show", "profile", name], capture_output = True).stdout.decode()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 698: invalid start byte

[daman9999]

you are working on windows machine since utf-8 is wrong encoding for that , utf-8 is default encoding for this if you write stdout.decode() instead replace it with stdout.decode("cp1252") it will work ;)

[davidbombal]

Thanks @daman9999

[TonyLeeIT]

you are working on windows machine since utf-8 is wrong encoding for that , utf-8 is default encoding for this if you write stdout.decode() instead replace it with stdout.decode("cp1252") it will work ;)

tks so much

[luccavp12]

you are working on windows machine since utf-8 is wrong encoding for that , utf-8 is default encoding for this if you write stdout.decode() instead replace it with stdout.decode("cp1252") it will work ;)

Your idea helped fix my random issue. Thank you!