Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

[Jeff Epler]

I think you do something like this (untested):

import codecs

def transcode(infile, outfile, incoding="shift-jis",
        outcoding="utf-8"):
    f = codecs.open(infile, "rb", incoding)
    g = codecs.open(outfile, "wb", outcoding)

    g.write(f.read())
# If the file is so large that it can't be read at once, do a loop which
# reads and writes smaller chunks
#    while 1:
#        block = f.read(4096000)
#        if not block: break
#        g.write(block)

    f.close()
    g.close()

Jeff
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