UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 49: character maps to <undefined> - Python

COUNTRY INFO PROGRAM:

I want to retrieve the country information using the 'countryinfo' library. I have installed countryinfo python package using pip.

pip install countryinfo

CODE:

from countryinfo import CountryInfo



def get_country_info(country_name):

    try:

        country = CountryInfo(country_name)

        return {

        'capital': country.capital(),

        "Region": country.region(),

        "Currencies": country.currencies(),

        "Languages": country.languages(),

    }

    except Exception as e:

        print(f"Error: {e}")

    

if __name__ == "__main__":

    country_name = input("Enter the country name: ")

    country_details = get_country_info(country_name)

    print(country_details)

I got this following error while executing a python program. 

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 49: character maps to <undefined>.

SOLUTION:

This problem is related to the character encoding. To handle this issue use encoding utf-8.

 country_info = json.load(open(file_path,encoding='utf-8'))

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