UnicodeDecodeError ? Please help!

[vogelap]

I am receiving the following error any time I try to start Automatic1111 on my Windows 11 machine. How do I fix it?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 48, in
main()
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 44, in main
start()
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\launch_utils.py", line 460, in start
import webui
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\webui.py", line 13, in
initialize.imports()
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\initialize.py", line 34, in imports
shared_init.initialize()
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\shared_init.py", line 38, in initialize
shared.prompt_styles = styles.StyleDatabase(shared.styles_filename)
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\styles.py", line 106, in init
self.reload()
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\styles.py", line 139, in reload
self.load_from_csv(self.path)
File "F:\StableDiffusion\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\modules\styles.py", line 144, in load_from_csv
for row in reader:
File "C:\Users\andre\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\csv.py", line 111, in next
row = next(self.reader)
File "C:\Users\andre\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
File "C:\Users\andre\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\encodings\utf_8_sig.py", line 69, in _buffer_decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1065: invalid continuation byte
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[vogelap]

Anyone?

[w-e-w]

likely your styles.csv is somehow corrupted
make a backup file and then delete it
you can try to fix the file if you want