read a file and remove Mojibake chars

[Ben Finney]

Daiyue Weng <daiyueweng at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, when I read a file, the file string contains Mojibake chars at the
> beginning

You are explicitly setting an encoding to read the file; that is good,
since Python should not guess the input encoding.

The reason it's good is because the issue, of knowing the correct text
encoding, is dealt with immediately. I am guessing the text encoding may
be not as you expect.

Are you certain the text encoding is “utf-8”? Can you verify that with
whatever created the file — what text encoding does it use to write that
file?

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Ben Finney