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diff --git a/docs/source/faq.rst b/docs/source/faq.rst index 30a4ecc..fad8c6b 100644 --- a/docs/source/faq.rst +++ b/docs/source/faq.rst @@ -88,7 +88,16 @@ If you use the ``Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate`` header with websocket-client, you will probably encounter errors, such as the ones described in `issue #314. <https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client/tree/master/compliance>`_ -If a connection is re-establish after getting disconnected, does the new connection continue where the previous one dropped off? +I get the error 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 0 +============================================================================ + +This error is caused when you receive a character that is not a UTF-8 character, +so the UTF-8 decoding fails. You can set `skip_utf8_validation` to false, +but if this does not work, you can change the encoding to ISO-8859-1 which +was a workaround suggested in +[issue 481](https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client/issues/481#issuecomment-1112506666). + +If a connection is re-established after getting disconnected, does the new connection continue where the previous one dropped off? ======================================================================================================================================= The answer to this question depends on how the WebSocket server |