Error reading the sch and pcb file (and possibly not only) due to a unicode error

[FutureEngineeer]

Problem: if there are characters in a file (for example, in a text field) that are not contained in the standard encoding, then a UnicodeDecodeError error occurs: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte: character maps to

Solution: when opening a file and writing to a file, you can use encoding='cp437'

For example in schematic.py:

with open(filepath, 'w', encoding='cp437') as outfile:
   outfile.write(self.to_sexpr())

[mvnmgrx]

This may fix your problem, but it might also break the parser for other users .. KiCad as well as the open() function uses UTF-8 as default as far as i know. So it seems like the file you are trying to parse is not ASCII or UTF-8 encoded.

I won't change the default encoding in all file-related functions, but i could add another parameter with which you could specify a different encoding (if converting your files to UTF-8 is not possible).

[FutureEngineeer]

Thank you, I think this can solve the problem for files in which using languages other than English

[mvnmgrx]

Added a new parameter encoding to all file-related functions in #50. Will be released in v1.2.2 asap later this week.

Thanks for pointing this out!