["python","pandas","windows","csv"]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 35: invalid start byte

I am trying to read a CSV file using the below script. Past = pd.read_csv("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/Past.csv", encoding='utf-8') But, I get the error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 35: invalid start byte" Where is the issue? I used encoding in the script and thought it would resolve the error.
This happens because you chose the wrong encoding. Since you are working on a Windows machine, just replacing Past = pd.read_csv("C:/Users/.../Past.csv", encoding='utf-8') with Past = pd.read_csv("C:/Users/.../Past.csv", encoding='cp1252') should solve the problem.