I wrote a query to create a SQLite database and the query is completely correct. The database file is created in my project files but when I try to open it (in pycharm), this message shows up: The file was loaded in a wrong encoding 'UTF-8' This is the code causing this problem : import sqlite3 connection = sqlite3.connect("./one_database.db") cursor = connection.cursor() sql = """ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS User ( user_NAME VARCHAR (60), user_CHATID FLOAT (20), user_PHONENUMBER VARCHAR ) """ cursor.execute(sql) connection.commit() connection.close() So far, I tried to download and update all drivers and needs for SQLite3 and everything is up to date. I've tried all solutions I found on Google (including JetBrains official documentation, Stack Overflow, etc.) but none of the above is working and the result is the same! I'm using: Python 3.8 | PyCharm 2021.1 Continue reading...