title: UnicodeDecodeError when reading CSV file in Pandas with Python
body: <p>I'm running a program which is processing 30,000 similar files. A random number of them are stopping and producing this error...</p>
  <pre><code>File &quot;C:\Importer\src\dfman\importer.py&quot;, line 26, in import_chr
       data = pd.read_csv(filepath, names=fields)
  File &quot;C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py&quot;, line 400, in parser_f
       return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
  File &quot;C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py&quot;, line 205, in _read
       return parser.read()
     File &quot;C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py&quot;, line 608, in read
       ret = self._engine.read(nrows)
  File &quot;C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py&quot;, line 1028, in read
       data = self._reader.read(nrows)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 706, in pandas.parser.TextReader.read (pandas\parser.c:6745)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 728, in pandas.parser.TextReader._read_low_memory (pandas\parser.c:6964)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 804, in pandas.parser.TextReader._read_rows (pandas\parser.c:7780)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 890, in pandas.parser.TextReader._convert_column_data (pandas\parser.c:8793)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 950, in pandas.parser.TextReader._convert_tokens (pandas\parser.c:9484)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 1026, in pandas.parser.TextReader._convert_with_dtype (pandas\parser.c:10642)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 1046, in pandas.parser.TextReader._string_convert (pandas\parser.c:10853)
  File &quot;parser.pyx&quot;, line 1278, in pandas.parser._string_box_utf8 (pandas\parser.c:15657)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 6: invalid    continuation byte
  </code></pre>
  <p>The source/creation of these files all come from the same place. What's the best way to correct this to proceed with the import?</p>