Root Cause

• The trailing “unexpected end of JSON input” suggests the decoder aborted midway, producing invalid JSON.
• This mismatch between file content (likely UTF-8 or containing special characters) and default Windows decoding causes the issue.

Suggested Solutions
1. Force UTF-8 decoding in the Transpiler

If you have control over the CLI or transpiler's Python code, ensure file opening is done with:                        open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8')

2. Set Python's environment to use UTF-8 by default
You can try running the transpiler in UTF-8 mode using:

py -Xutf8 -m databricks.labs.lakebridge transpile ...

3. Convert files to UTF-8 before transpiling

If possible, ensure your source files are encoded in UTF-8. :

import codecs
with codecs.open(src, 'r', encoding='cp1252', errors='ignore') as f_in, \
codecs.open(dst, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
f_out.write(f_in.read())

Pls let me know if any of the above works