Can't using emoji in comments

[EightShift]

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Hello. For a long time no comments have been posted in which emoji is used. Already tried to use different encodings for the comment file but the result is two:

1. Error
2. Unknown symbols instead of emotions

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "comment_hashtags.py", line 32, in bot.comment_hashtag(hashtag) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot.py", line 544, in comment_hashtag return comment_hashtag(self, hashtag, amount) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot_comment.py", line 47, in comment_hashtag return self.comment_medias(medias) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot.py", line 547, in comment_medias return comment_medias(self, medias) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot_comment.py", line 33, in comment_medias text = self.get_comment() File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot.py", line 371, in get_comment return get_comment(self) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\bot\bot_get.py", line 233, in get_comment return self.comments_file.random().strip() File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\utils.py", line 54, in random return random.choice(self.list) File "C:\Users*username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\instabot\utils.py", line 17, in list lines = [x.strip('\n') for x in f.readlines()] File "C:\Users*username*\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\encodings\cp1251.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 2: character maps to 2018-08-25 07:47:44,487 - INFO - Bot stopped. Worked: 2:47:18.835092 2018-08-25 07:47:44,488 - INFO - Total requests: 50

[vladpoly90]

Can't post emoji in Windows (appears as random chars) but works just fine in Linux.

Reading comments for a file.

[EightShift]

@Tuplad, but... why? I installed Linux on my home server. And it really works well. Only, I'm a noob in Linux. And I do not understand why it works only with version 2.7. When I try to run from version 3.6, nothing happens. And I'm trying to figure out how to do bat-file like in windows, for a convenient bot launch.

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