diff --git a/exts/imports/process_files.py b/exts/imports/process_files.py
index 5728385..3af6d70 100644
--- a/exts/imports/process_files.py
+++ b/exts/imports/process_files.py
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ def process_file(in_file, file_type) -> ConfigParser:
         keep_blocks = bot_config['keep_blocks'][file_type]
     lines = in_file.readlines()
     try:
-        data = [line.decode('utf-8') for line in lines]
+        data = [line.decode(encoding='utf-8') for line in lines]
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
         try:
-            data = [line.decode('utf-16') for line in lines]
+            data = [line.decode(encoding='utf-16') for line in lines]
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             return 0
     clean_data = list()
diff --git a/exts/uploader.py b/exts/uploader.py
index 05b8c7b..2c97796 100644
--- a/exts/uploader.py
+++ b/exts/uploader.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Uploader:
                         unzipped = process_files.load_zip(file)
                         game_ini, dinos_data, mods = process_files.process_files(unzipped)
                         if not game_ini and not dinos_data and not mods:
-                            await msg.edit(content='There was an encoding error with one of the files provided'
+                            await msg.edit(content='There was an encoding error with one of the files provided '
                                                    'and they cannot be processed')
                             return
                         if dinos_data == dict():