title: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 24: invalid start byte
body: <p>I am trying to read a <code>csv</code> file using the following lines of <code>Python</code> code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>crimes = pd.read_csv('C:/Users/usuario1/Desktop/python/csv/001 Boston crimes/crime.csv', encoding = 'utf8')
  crimes.head(5)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am getting decode error as follws:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 24: invalid start byte
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is going wrong?</p>