UTF-8 Error Legacy OpenStudio
I am attempting to open an old .idf file, created in DesignBuilder. I am using EnergyPlus v8.2, Sketchup v2014, and the Legacy OpenStudio plugin version 1.0.12. I tried upgrading the file to the most recent EnergyPlus version and use the plugin version 1.0.14, but was still getting the same error. I opened the Ruby Console when attempting to open the file (as suggested here), and got the following error:
Error: #ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
What does this mean, and what can be done to fix it? A link to the file can be found here.
DOE blocks dropbox so I can't see your file. But a UTF-8 error indicates that you have a bad character somewhere. If you open the file in notepad, the character will appear as \xxx\yyy. At that point you can just delete it or change it to something else.