python导入excel显示notutf_Python pandas to_excel 'utf8' codec can't decode byte

I'm trying to do some data work in Python pandas and having trouble writing out my results. I read my data in as a CSV file and been exporting each script as it's own CSV file which works fine. Lately though I've tried exporting everything in 1 Excel file with worksheets and a few of the sheets give me an error

"'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1: invalid continuation byte"

I have no idea how to even start finding any characters that could be causing problems exporting to Excel. Not sure why it exports to CSV just fine though :(

relevant lines from pandas import ExcelWriter data = pd.read_csv(input) writer = ExcelWriter(output) #output is just the filename fundraisers.to_excel(writer, "fundraisers") locations.to_excel(writer, "locations") #error locations.to_csv(outputcsv) #works writer.save()

printing head of offending dataframe Event ID Constituent ID Email Address First Name \ Last Name f 1 A A 1 F 4 L R C M 1 1 A D F 4 A A G M 2 0 R G M 3 O O H M 2 T E H M 2 A A H M 2 M M K F 3 J E K Location ID raised raised con raised email a 0 0 0 a 8 0 0 o 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 t 5 0 0 o 1 0 0 o 6 a 0 o 6 0 0 d 0 0 0

looking at the excel sheet I do actually get a partial print out. Anything in the first name column and beyond are blank, but event, constituent and email all print.

edit: Trying to read the csv in as utf8 fails, but reading it in as latin1 works. Is there a way to specify the to_excel encoding? Or decode and encode my dataframe to utf8?