utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0

Generation Failed I am trying to install hyde on windows vista 64-bit. I am getting this error when attempting to run the generator:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\xampp\htdocs\hyde\hydeengineinit.py", line 417, in process_all self.process(resource) File "c:\xampp\htdocs\hyde\hydeengineinit.py", line 377, in process return self.processor.process(item) File "c:\xampp\htdocs\hyde\hydeengine\processor.py", line 116, in process TemplateProcessor.process(resource) File "c:\xampp\htdocs\hyde\hydeengine\media_processors.py", line 15, in proces s rendered = render_to_string(resource.source_file.path, settings.CONTEXT) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 169, in r ender_to_string t = get_template(template_name) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 145, in g et_template template, origin = find_template(template_name) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 134, in f ind_template source, display_name = loader(name, dirs) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 42, in call return self.load_template(template_name, template_dirs) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 45, in lo ad_template source, display_name = self.load_template_source(template_name, template_dir s) File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loaders\filesystem.py", li ne 39, in load_template_source return (file.read().decode(settings.FILE_CHARSET), filepath) File "c:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid s tart byte

I was looking to try out hyde as an alternative to jekyll, since I am in the process of learning python and django. But sadly can't get it running. Any help is appreciated, I will do a little googlin' and see if I come up with a fix. Thanks!

I am watching this issue because similar bug is occured at my Windows 8, Python 2.7.5. And i encountered a similar error with Jekyll and also Hyde

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte (HYDE)

Solved with removing Unicode BOM characters programmatically from my content files. Or manually from http://stackoverflow.com/a/8898439/1766716

def removeBom(file):
    import os, sys, codecs
    BUFSIZE = 4096
    BOMLEN = len(codecs.BOM_UTF8)

    with open(file, "r+b") as fp:
        chunk = fp.read(BUFSIZE)
        if chunk.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF8):
            i = 0
            chunk = chunk[BOMLEN:]
            while chunk:
                fp.seek(i)
                fp.write(chunk)
                i += len(chunk)
                fp.seek(BOMLEN, os.SEEK_CUR)
                chunk = fp.read(BUFSIZE)
            fp.seek(-BOMLEN, os.SEEK_CUR)
            fp.truncate()
    return 0

Encode Unicode files to -> Unicode Without BOM.

BUT, i encountered this error at the very beginning of the installation, in other words i have no content files and no content files with Unicode or with UTF without BOM.

Error while rendering page /prerendered/hyde-icon.png
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Generation Failed
(... Lots of text ...)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte

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