title: Can someone help me with this unicode error?
body: <pre><code>  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
      return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 796: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My goal is get the text  from a text file and save it as a variable in my program. I do not know how it is encoded. If someone could tell me how to find out how it is encoded, that may also be helpful</p>