PYTHON

python open encoding utf-8

from io import open
f = open("test", mode="r", encoding="utf-8")

force utf-8 encoding python

import codecs # Python standard library
codecs.encode("A strange character","utf-8")
# this would give you the utf-8 encoded bytes

python utf8

# insert in the first line of the file

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

# or

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

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.

python Non-UTF-8 code starting with

# coding=utf-8

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'))

python encoding utf 8

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Python UTF-8 encoding in source

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Write your script here...
....