# Charset exception

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/charset-exception/10093>\
**Category:** Processing.py\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/charset-exception/10093 "2019-04-08T14:26:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sky/32/3013_2.png) [@Sky](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Sky)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/charset-exception/10093/1 "2019-04-08T14:26:32Z")

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I passed to a friend of mine a project (in Python), but he got this error:

 ![trash](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/d/d4638ba47892b859d5ce35913d142a3eceb87568.jpeg)  
I didnt use any font

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**Author:** ![tabreturn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/tabreturn/32/3697_2.png) [@tabreturn](https://discourse.processing.org/u/tabreturn)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/charset-exception/10093/2 "2019-04-08T20:14:46Z")

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This is not a font-related issue. Are you parsing some text from an external text file/source (like a JSON or XML file, or something)?

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**Author:** ![Sky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sky/32/3013_2.png) [@Sky](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Sky)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/charset-exception/10093/3 "2019-04-09T15:29:13Z")

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No, but I think its because my friend opened this project with his (very) old notebook, when he opened my poroject with his desktop pc everything worked fine(that its newer)