Encoding error in python3 UnicodeEncodeError?

Question

Python

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 21-24: ordinal not in range(128)
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This is what crashes when the function is run.
Here is the code:

user = user_id
        my_info = vk.users.get()[0]
        my_id = my_info['id']
        my_name = my_info['first_name'] + ' ' + my_info['last_name']
        target_name = names_list[dialog_list.index(user)]

        vv = open(f'{chat_id_path}/{target_name}.txt', 'tw', encoding='utf-8')
                                vv.close()

Swears at this line

vv = open(f'{chat_id_path}/{target_name}.txt', 'tw', encoding='utf-8')

I'm running from the 3rd python.

Answer 1

Answer: the code is correct, but the server simply does not support UTF-8

Answer 2

have you tried encoding='cp1251'?