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Open any text file, with the basic encodings utf-8 and widnows-1252
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open-utf-8-file.py
# The solution for usual problems of opening files with specific encoding, french, englis,arabic ....
def openHoweverFile(filename):
f = None
try:
f = open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError:
f = open(filename, 'r', encoding='windows-1252')
return f
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