title: Unicode error handling with Python 3's readlines()
body: <p>I keep getting this error while reading a text file. Is it possible to handle/ignore it and proceed?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t decode byte 0x81 in position
    7827: character maps to undefined.</p>
  </blockquote>