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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 0: invalid start byte

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When i test lowpass demo ,i  meet a problem like this ,please help me.

D:\Testproject\Lowpass>python "%WWISEROOT%/Scripts/Build/Plugins/wp.py" build -c Release -x x64 -t vc160 Authoring
Building Lowpass for Authoring_Windows in Release...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\unitywwise/Scripts/Build/Plugins/wp.py", line 38, in <module>
    sys.exit(subcommand.run(sys.argv[2:]))
  File "E:\unitywwise\Scripts\Build\Plugins\build.py", line 101, in run
    return platform_info.build.command(platform_info.name, args.configuration, build_hooks)
  File "E:\unitywwise\Scripts\Build\Plugins\common\command\vs.py", line 89, in build
    setup_command = os.path.join(find_common_tools(vs_version), "VsMSBuildCmd.bat")
  File "E:\unitywwise\Scripts\Build\Plugins\common\command\vs.py", line 71, in find_common_tools
    common_tools = strategy.execute()
  File "E:\unitywwise\Scripts\Build\Plugins\common\command\vs.py", line 57, in execute
    products = json.loads(subprocess.check_output("{} {} -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -format json".format(vswhere, self.flags)))
  File "E:\python2.7\lib\json\__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "E:\python2.7\lib\json\decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "E:\python2.7\lib\json\decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 0: invalid start byte
in Feature Requests by wang x. (110 points)
Unsure what version of Wwise you are using, but I suggest you use wp.py with a recent Python 3 installation rather than Python 2.7.

Starting with Wwise, 22.1, Python 2.7 support has been dropped following since it has reached EOL.
by Samuel L. (Audiokinetic) (23.6k points)

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