utf-8 encoding python code example
Example 1: python open encoding utf-8
from io import open
f = open("test", mode="r", encoding="utf-8")
Example 2: python Non-UTF-8 code starting with
# coding=utf-8
Example 3: 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'))
Example 4: python print utf-8
# credit to the Stack Overflow user in the source link
TestText = "Test - āĀēĒčČ..šŠūŪžŽ" # this not UTF-8...it is a Unicode string in Python 3.X.
TestText2 = TestText.encode('utf8') # this is a UTF-8-encoded byte string.