UnicodeDecodeError error about dbfread

[olemb]

Sorry, posted to quick. I meant:

encoding='iso-8859-1'

[olemb]

DBF files typically use older encodings like 'iso-8859-1'. This might work:

from dbfread import DBF
    for item in DBF('/home/chris/Desktop/ITEM.DBF', encoding='utf-8'):
        print item

[ccfiel]

@olemb thanks it works!

[olemb]

Happy to hear that.

... after more than 4 years it worked for me too ... thanks ... very useful :)
Axel

[Mrabdel-dev]

thanx its work

[hado0601]

tks, useful for me as well

[rozen666]

Sorry, posted to quick. I meant:

encoding='iso-8859-1'

Still Works! Thanks!

[JuaniFreedoo]

@olemb thanks, hours and hours looking for a solution

[jsonkao]

After 8 years, ran into the same issue, still seems to work!