Issue with pandas dataframe with traditional chinese
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Description
I have a R dataframe which contain Chinese character, but if I use pd$DataFrame(my_df),
there always an error like this:
Error in py_call_impl(callable, dots$args, dots$keywords) :
Evaluation error: Evaluation error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 14: invalid start byte
Even if I use pandas read_csv to read the file :
library(reticulate)
pd<-import('pandas')
my_df<-pd$read_csv('my_df.csv',encoding = "UTF-8")
head(my_df)
pd$DataFrame(my_df)
It still occur the same error, but the dataframe in R seems fine and Chinese character can display perfectly.
The data can be downloaded here.
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Start by reproducing the R reticulate example using pandas, pd$DataFrame, pd$read_csv, and the linked dataset containing Traditional Chinese characters. Trace where the UTF-8 UnicodeDecodeError occurs; done means the dataframe conversion succeeds while preserving the Chinese text.
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- Tech stack
- pandas, python, r
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- data
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
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