microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 9-13: character maps to <undefined>
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I tried to convert a docx file to md fil, but i got this error
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 9-13: character maps to
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No source file, test, or entry point is identified in the report. Start by reproducing the DOCX-to-Markdown conversion with the characters that trigger the UnicodeEncodeError; done means the conversion completes without the encoding failure and the affected characters are represented in the Markdown output.
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