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Fixing Python UnicodeDecodeError When Reading UTF-16 Files - How to Use errors='ignore' in Python for Decoding-How to Enable Windows Defender Real-Time Protection via Registry

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Fixing Python UnicodeDecodeError When Reading UTF-16 Files - How to Use errors='ignore' in Python for Decoding-How to Enable Windows Defender Real-Time Protection via Registry

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