UnicodeDecodeError UTF-8 Error, how to fix?
00:18 20 Nov 2025

i try to run this projecthttps://github.com/tanjeffreyz/auto-maple?tab=readme-ov-file

and i get this error.

i has already installed all requirement.

when i run prompt in folder

result like this.

[~] Retrieving latest submodules:
 -  Updated submodule 'resources'

[~] Started main bot loop

[~] Initializing detection algorithm:

2025-11-20 13:41:03.779698: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:210] This TensorFlow binary is optimized to use available CPU instructions in performance-critical operations.
To enable the following instructions: SSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 AVX_VNNI FMA, in other operations, rebuild TensorFlow with the appropriate compiler flags.
2025-11-20 13:41:05.674187: E external/local_xla/xla/tsl/platform/windows/windows_file_system.cc:363] ERROR: GetSymbolicLinkTarget cannot open file for \\?\C:\Users\jsp93\Desktop\auto_maple\assets\models\rune_model_rnn_filtered_cannied\saved_model\variables\variables.data-00000-of-00001 GetLastError: 2

Exception in thread Thread-5 (_main):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\threading.py", line 1045, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\threading.py", line 982, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\Desktop\auto_maple\src\modules\bot.py", line 75, in _main
    model = detection.load_model()
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\Desktop\auto_maple\src\detection\detection.py", line 19, in load_model
    return tf.saved_model.load(model_dir)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\saved_model\load.py", line 912, in load
    result = load_partial(export_dir, None, tags, options)["root"]
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\saved_model\load.py", line 1042, in load_partial
    loader = Loader(object_graph_proto, saved_model_proto, export_dir,
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\saved_model\load.py", line 226, in __init__
    self._restore_checkpoint()
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\saved_model\load.py", line 561, in _restore_checkpoint
    load_status = saver.restore(variables_path, self._checkpoint_options)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\checkpoint\checkpoint.py", line 1463, in restore
    object_graph_string = reader.get_tensor(base.OBJECT_GRAPH_PROTO_KEY)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\jsp93\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\training\py_checkpoint_reader.py", line 66, in get_tensor
    return CheckpointReader.CheckpointReader_GetTensor(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 147: invalid continuation byte
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