error decoding sav to json

[xczsonn]

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Error decoding utf-16-le string of length 9, data loss may occur! b'W\x00i\x00l\x00l\x00i\x00a\x00m\x00=\xd8'

why this happen?

sav file https://gofile.io/d/m9KkWg

[cheahjs]

This should be fine, there are some characters that Python doesn't encode/decode without errors, but tests show that it should not impact anything. I print a warning just in case (and it's likely to pose compatibility problems with other tools that read this tool's JSON output if they don't handle it correctly).