Unicode Decode Error on file loading

[domna]

When I try to load a file
file = SIFFile('filename.sif')

I get the following error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 43: invalid start byte

Here is the full error trace:

UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 file = sif.SIFFile('(PhSn)4S6_1450nm_15mW.sif')

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sifreader-0.2.4-py3.6.egg\sifreader\sifreader.py in init(self, filepath)
42 def init(self, filepath):
43 self.filepath = filepath
---> 44 self._read_header(filepath)
45
46 def repr(self):

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sifreader-0.2.4-py3.6.egg\sifreader\sifreader.py in _read_header(self, filepath)
98 self.model = line.decode('utf-8')
99 elif i == 5:
--> 100 self.original_filename = line.decode('utf-8')
101 elif i == 7:
102 tokens = line.split()

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 43: invalid start byte

[lightingghost]

@domna Thanks for the issue. Could you please upload the file which causes the error?

[domna]

(PhSn)4S6_1450nm_15mW.txt
I renamed the file to .txt, because github does not support files with .sif extension to be uploaded.

[lightingghost]

@domna Thanks domna. I previously thought this as an encoding problem, but the actual difficulties are more than I expected. The structure of the file is different than what I have seen before. I am sorry currently this file cannot be processed by this script. I can work on that, but it needs more time.

[domna]

@lightingghost Too bad. Thank you for looking into it. If it is somehow possible to find a solution for this, it would be great. At some point I can have a look at the script myself and maybe supply a merge request, but currently I do not have any time for this (and I don't know anything about the internal structure of .sif files as well).