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I have a text file with utf-8 encoding. I want to change it's unicode to ANSI or unicode automatically in python. Is it possible? How can i do it?

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    possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/4299675/… Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 9:54
  • A precision: unicode is a characters set; utf8 is a codec (an algorithm) used to encode Unicode characters. Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 9:54
  • @LaurentLAPORTE, but when in windows we want to save as a text file, in encoding options we can see both utf-8 and unicodes.!? Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 10:08
  • See stackoverflow.com/a/701920/1513933 for a clear description of what is ANSI charset. Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 10:45
  • See stackoverflow.com/a/15128103/1513933 to have a clear description of what is Unicode charset. Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 10:45

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Try this

#read input file
with codecs.open('USERS.CSV', 'r', encoding = 'latin-1') as file:
lines = file.read()  

#write output file
with codecs.open('1_UserPython.CSV', 'w', encoding = 'utf_8_sig') as file:
file.write(lines)
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To convert a file from utf8 to cp1252:

import io

with io.open(src_path, mode="r", encoding="utf8") as fd:
    content = fd.read()
with io.open(dst_path, mode="w", encoding="cp1252") as fd:
    fd.write(content)

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