UnicodeDecodeError, when using read_string

[VitalijKo]

When I read 4 bytes int, everything works fine, but when I try to read a string using read_string I get UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 1: invalid start byte. How can I fix it? I have Windows 10 x64 and Python 3.9. Perhaps I have an unsupported version of Python?

[wkingnet]

you can try this:

temp = b''
while pm.read_bytes(address, 1) != b'\x00':
    temp = temp + pm.read_bytes(address, 1)
    address += 1
print(temp.decode('utf-8'))

[LoseNine]

I solved the problem，when u read chinese string，like “清润珍珠....”，will raise UnicodeDecodeError，you can try this： 1.Go into this method· ‘read_string’ 2.Go into this method 'pymem.memory.read_string(self.process_handle, address, byte)' 3.Modify the code `

buff = read_bytes(handle, address, byte)
i = buff.find(b'\x00')
if i != -1:
    buff = buff[:i]
try:
    buff = buff.decode()
except UnicodeDecodeError:
    buff=buff.decode('gb2312',errors='ignore')
return buff

`

[StarrFox]

I think adding an encoding argument to read_string would fix this issue