read_sav(): UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9a in position 49: invalid start byte

[zenelba]

Hi!

Have an issue with reading an SPSS .sav file.

I have already deleted all the "string" variables but the problem persists :(

Do you have any idea how to solve this?

This is the first time I encounter such an issue in more than 5 years of using this library.

z

[MDS-JAnthony]

Hello,
This could be caused by number of different things.
Are you able to open your file in SPSS and check what encoding has been used to save the file?