<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_7203432553484146564markdown-here-wrapper"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Code which I'm trying to plot inside a Jupyter notebook:</p>
<pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important">%matplotlib inline
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
m = Basemap(projection="merc", llcrnrlat=38.8, llcrnrlon=-76, urcrnrlat=42, urcrnrlon=-72.5, resolution='i')
m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=.<wbr>25)
m.drawcountries(linewidth=.25)
m.drawstates(linewidth=.2)
m.drawcounties(linewidth=.1)
</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The error I get is:</p>
<pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important">UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 2: invalid continuation byte
</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Which is exactly the same as in this GitHub Issue (which isn’t mine): <a href="https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/issues/324" target="_blank">https://github.com/matplotlib/<wbr>basemap/issues/324</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I’m running MPL 1.5.3, does anyone have any clues on how I might troubleshoot this?</p>
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