title: UnicodeDecodeError reading a CSV file
body: <p>I use the following code to read a CSV file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>address=r'C:\Users\ssadangi\Desktop\Lynda Python data analytics\Ch02\02_05\Superstore-Sales.csv'
  df=pd.read_csv(address,index_col='Order Date',parse_dates=True)
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  <p>The code gives me this error:</p>
  
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  <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8()
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 16: invalid start byte
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:</p>
  
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  <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-28-3fa20db347ab&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 df=pd.read_csv('Superstore-Sales.csv',index_col='Order Date',parse_dates=True)
  ~\Documents\Softwares\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in parser_f(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, squeeze, prefix, mangle_dupe_cols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, dayfirst, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, tupleize_cols, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, skipfooter, skip_footer, doublequote, delim_whitespace, as_recarray, compact_ints, use_unsigned, low_memory, buffer_lines, memory_map, float_precision)
      707                     skip_blank_lines=skip_blank_lines)
      708 
  --&gt; 709         return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
      710 
      711     parser_f.__name__ = name
  ~\Documents\Softwares\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
      453 
      454     try:
  --&gt; 455         data = parser.read(nrows)
      456     finally:
      457         parser.close()
  ~\Documents\Softwares\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in read(self, nrows)
     1067                 raise ValueError('skipfooter not supported for iteration')
     1068 
  -&gt; 1069         ret = self._engine.read(nrows)
     1070 
     1071         if self.options.get('as_recarray'):
  ~\Documents\Softwares\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in read(self, nrows)
     1837     def read(self, nrows=None):
     1838         try:
  -&gt; 1839             data = self._reader.read(nrows)
     1840         except StopIteration:
     1841             if self._first_chunk:
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_low_memory()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_column_data()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert()
  pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8()
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 16: invalid start byte
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>