"I get utf-8 error when django makemessages command runs"

Question

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "manage.py", line 22, in <module>
 main()
 File "manage.py", line 18, in main
 execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
 utility.execute()
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 436, in execute
 self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 412, in run_from_argv
 self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 458, in execute
 output = self.handle(*args, **options)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\makemessages.py", line 430, in handle
 potfiles = self.build_potfiles()
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\makemessages.py", line 508, in build_potfiles
 self.process_files(file_list)
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\makemessages.py", line 599, in process_files
 self.process_locale_dir(locale_dir, files)
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\makemessages.py", line 675, in process_locale_dir
 msgs, errors, status = popen_wrapper(args)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "myvenv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\utils.py", line 26, in popen_wrapper
 p.stdout.decode(stdout_encoding),
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 978: invalid start byte

When I run the "django makemessages" command, I keep getting this error. I've gone through all the files in a loop to check for UTF-8 issues, but I couldn't find any. I've verified that all my files are encoded in UTF-8, but I still keep encountering this error.

• Ahtisham: Are you dealing with any file upload process ?
• Emre Türkmen: No, I want to create a language file with the makemessages command. After running the "manage.py makemessages -l en" command it gives this error
• Ahtisham: It sometimes happens when you copy the contents of original file into new and load that new file.