Gradio has a conflict with Python file cp1252

[MichelangeloAmorusoManzari]

Describe the bug

When running gradio file.py, the code compiles. When opening the provided link for the gradio interface, the code crashes, giving the following error:

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 309911: character maps to <undefine>

After hours of trial and error, switching Python versions, using a new virtual environment, changing gradio version and more, I found a temporary solution: comment the code of file: cp1252.

This solves the issue for now.

Regarding the error I found that "0x8f" is part of the charmap of Python, but it's an undefined character, I cannot find more information on what is triggering this error.

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Reproduction

I cannot share the code as it is under NDA unfortunately, I know you will hate me, but I'm just showing an issue.

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System Info

Gradio 4.31.3

Python 3.8 or 3.11 gave the same error.

Severity

I can work around it

[abidlabs]

Can you please provide a minimal repro with code @MichelangeloAmorusoManzari? See: https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example

[MichelangeloAmorusoManzari]

Hello, I cannot for an NDA agreement.

The versions of gradio and Python on Windows 11 made me reproduce this problem.

[abidlabs]

Hi @MichelangeloAmorusoManzari you don't need to share proprietary code but we'll need some sort of minimal example that produces this error, otherwise we are not sure if it's a gradio issue or something else in your code. I'll close this for now, until we have a suitable repro.