Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1

[byposeidon]

Hello,

If there are UTF-8 characters in the wordlist(rockyou.txt), the application gives the following error;

Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 5079963: invalid continuation byte

[mijnog]

@byposeidon, I suggest you use the following command on each line of rockyou.txt to convert it to ASCII, it's quick and dirty but it should work

iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT

source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/171832/converting-a-utf-8-file-to-ascii-best-effort

[sec13b]

https://github.com/sec13b/rockyou_utf-8_kali

have fun