UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 118133: invalid continuation byte

This error occurs when Python tries to decode a byte string using the 'utf-8' codec and encounters an invalid continuation byte.

A continuation byte is part of a multi-byte character in UTF-8 encoding. It follows the first byte of a multi-byte character and indicates the next byte in the sequence. If the continuation byte is not valid, it means that the byte string is not encoded properly in UTF-8.

To fix this error, you can try the following steps:

1. Try to decode the byte string using a different codec, such as 'iso-8859-1' or 'utf-16'.
2. If you know the original encoding of the byte string, you can specify it explicitly when decoding. For example, if the original encoding is 'latin-1', you can use the following code:

   text = byte_string.decode('latin-1')

3. If the byte string contains non-ASCII characters, you can try to clean it up using the 'replace' method. For example:

   text = byte_string.decode('utf-8', 'replace')

This will replace any invalid characters with the Unicode replacement character '\uFFFD'.

4. If none of the above solutions work, it's possible that the byte string is corrupted or not encoded in any recognizable format. In this case, you may need to obtain a new copy of the data.