Replace this: What happened? What were you trying to achieve?
Environment
Which environment were you using when you encountered the problem?
$ python -m platform
# Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
$ python -c "import pypdf;print(pypdf._debug_versions)"
# pypdf==3.17.1, crypt_provider=('cryptography', '41.0.3'), PIL=none
Code + PDF
I get this error from:
for pdf in list:
print(' Adding: {}'.format(pdf))
merger.append(pdf)
It comes from:
Illegal character in Name Object (b'/DocuSign\xae')
and not UTF-8 related.
See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76328047/how-can-i-remove-the-character-from-multiple-multi-page-pdfs-using-pymupdf-for
Related to #369