UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x9c

Question

I have a socket server that is supposed to receive UTF-8 valid characters from clients.

The problem is some clients (mainly hackers) are sending all the wrong kind of data over it.

I can easily distinguish the genuine client, but I am logging to files all the data sent so I can analyze it later.

Sometimes I get characters like this œ that cause the UnicodeDecodeError error.

I need to be able to make the string UTF-8 with or without those characters.

Answer 1

You can use the below mentioned piece of code to get rid of this error:-

str = unicode(str, errors='replace')

or

str = unicode(str, errors='ignore')