[New-bugs-announce] [issue44510] file.read() UnicodeDecodeError with large files on Windows

[Rohan Amin]

New submission from Rohan Amin <aminrohan64 at gmail.com>:

When using file.read() with a large text file,  
there is a UnicodeDecodeError. I expected file.read(1) to read one character from the file. It works with a smaller text file. I experienced this bug on  Windows 10 version 20H2. My teacher couldn't reproduce this bug on Linux.

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components: IO, Unicode, Windows
files: Bug Reproduction Code.zip
messages: 396532
nosy: RohanA, ezio.melotti, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: file.read() UnicodeDecodeError with large files on Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.9
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file50126/Bug Reproduction Code.zip

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