UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 4454: character maps to <undefined>

[thoonky]

See below for error. I am using Kicad 5.1.10

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "c:\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Python\Python39\Scripts\kifield.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "c:\python\python39\lib\site-packages\kifield_main.py", line 141, in main
kifield(
File "c:\python\python39\lib\site-packages\kifield\kifield.py", line 1498, in kifield
part_fields_dict = extract_part_fields(
File "c:\python\python39\lib\site-packages\kifield\kifield.py", line 684, in extract_part_fields
f_part_fields_dict = extraction_function(
File "c:\python\python39\lib\site-packages\kifield\kifield.py", line 316, in extract_part_fields_from_sch
sch = Schematic(filename) # Read in the schematic.
File "c:\python\python39\lib\site-packages\kifield\sch.py", line 233, in init
self.header = f.readline()
File "c:\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 0x9d in position 4454: character maps to

[xesscorp]

You don't mention what version of KiField you are using or how you are calling it, and you didn't attach the schematic file that caused this error. I assume the schematic probably includes some non-ASCII electrical symbol. I tried creating such a schematic and I didn't have any problem using KiField with it.

You might try the latest development version of KiField and see if that fixes your problem:

pip install git+https://github.com/xesscorp/KiField@development