Some help, please! I'm trying to import a CSV list into Calibre and I'm getting the following error message:
Spoiler:
calibre, version 5.38.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeDecodeError</b>:'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 3948: invalid start byte
calibre 5.38 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.19041 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19041')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19041', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 15) && DeDRM (7, 2, 1) && Count Pages (1, 11, 2) && EpubMerge (2, 13, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 3, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 1, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 9, 5) && Import List (1, 8, 2) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 1) && Modify ePub (1, 7, 3) && Quality Check (1, 12, 0) && Reading List (1, 9, 0) && Search The Internet (1, 8, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.import_list.tab_csv", line 335, in _choose_file
File "calibre_plugins.import_list.tab_csv", line 339, in _on_file_change
File "calibre_plugins.import_list.tab_csv", line 396, in _populate_csv_table
File "calibre_plugins.import_list.tab_csv", line 389, in _csv_to_rows
File "codecs.py", line 322, in decode
File "encodings\utf_8_sig.py", line 69, in _buffer_decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 3948: invalid start byte
I've never had any trouble before with the plug-in in the past but, IIRC, this is the first time I'm importing a list since upgrading to Calibre 5.