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Macro Rendering Error

File: guides/windows/fix-smartcard-reader-drivers.md

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/mkdocs_macros/plugin.py", line 688, in render
    return md_template.render(**page_variables)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 1295, in render
    self.environment.handle_exception()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 942, in handle_exception
    raise rewrite_traceback_stack(source=source)
  File "<template>", line 38, in top-level template code
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/jinja2/loaders.py", line 215, in get_source
    contents = f.read()
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 325, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte