python 2 encode utf8 code example

Example 1: python utf8

# insert in the first line of the file

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# or

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Example 2: how to convert utf-16 file to utf-8 in python

with open(ff_name, 'rb') as source_file:
  with open(target_file_name, 'w+b') as dest_file:
    contents = source_file.read()
    dest_file.write(contents.decode('utf-16').encode('utf-8'))