chatgpt/TryUTF8Read.py

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#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import codecs
def test_utf8_encoding(filepath):
try:
with codecs.open(filepath, 'r', 'utf-8') as testfile:
testfile.read()
#print(f"{filepath} is openable with UTF-8 encoding.")
except UnicodeDecodeError:
print(f"{filepath} is not openable with UTF-8 encoding.")
print(f"Converting {filepath} from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8...")
with codecs.open(filepath, 'r', 'iso-8859-1') as f:
content = f.read()
utf8_content = content.decode('iso-8859-1').encode('utf-8')
with codecs.open(filepath, 'w', 'utf-8') as f:
f.write(utf8_content)
print(f"{filepath} has been converted to UTF-8.")
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Please provide a file name as a command line argument.")
sys.exit(1)
filepath = sys.argv[1]
test_utf8_encoding(filepath)