parsing GEDCOM file is not very stable

[hartenthaler]

After installing python and the missing modules (networkx, gedcompy, six) I was able to use gedcom2gexf.py for one of my GEDCOM files. But all the other files couldn't be used because there are several parsing errors when reading these files because they contain "wrong" UTF8 characters. Is there a possibility to make the parsing a bit more robust? Is the source for this error in the module gedcompy?
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\herma\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\gedcom2gexf.py", line 48, in <module> gedcom2gephi(gedcomFilename=args.gedcom, gephiFilename=args.outputGexf) File "C:\Users\herma\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\gedcom2gexf.py", line 24, in gedcom2gephi g = gedcom.parse(gedcomFilename) File "C:\Users\herma\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\gedcom\__init__.py", line 739, in parse return parse_filename(obj) File "C:\Users\herma\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\gedcom\__init__.py", line 704, in parse_filename return __parse(fp.readlines()) File "C:\Users\herma\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 1222: character maps to <undefined>

[Gjacquenot]

Hello @hartenthaler

Thanks for your interest in these tools.

Parsing is done with module gedcompy, that does not specify file encoding as one can see here

To get around with this error quickly, I would recommend you to change file encoding with Notepad++ as you are working on Windows. Convert the encoding of your input file to UTF-8 and this should do the trick.

I hope to have some time in the next week to give a more appropriate encoding solution