Fix the UnicodeDecodeError
in np.loadtxt
#11
Merged
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(This is a corrected version of PR #8)
On Windows 10
np.loadtxt
raisesUnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 1983: character maps to <undefined>
.On CentOS 7:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 858: ordinal not in range(128)
Specifying the UTF-8 encoding fixes the problem. Tested on Windows 10 and CentOS 7.
In contributing guidelines you ask for tests. But I'm not sure what kind of tests should I add since there are no other tests in the repo. Happy to do that if you clarify this point. I completed the CLA.