nanophotonics / nplab

Core functions and instrument scripts for the Nanophotonics lab experimental scripts
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UnicodeDecodeError when trying to connect to piezoconcept FOC using your project #153

Open GesineMueller opened 1 year ago

GesineMueller commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I like to run my new piezo FOC300 with Python. Piezoconcept added a link to your project for guidance when trying to use Python. I have dowloaded and installed your project in a new mamba environment and adapted the script 'Piezoconcept_FOC100.py' to the 300 um. When trying to run this project I always get an error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 (0xb5 is an example). I attached a screenshot.

I tried it on both a Windows 10 and a Mac (M1) system using Pycharm or Spyder with the same result. For me it looks like an encoding/decoding problem, and thus I have tried several other encodings than 'utf-8' such as 'ascii' and 'ISO-8859-1'. Can you forward me to any solution or have an idea what is going wrong here?

Many thanks, Gesine

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