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Reads a file with legacy encoding
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| # taken from: | |
| # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22459020/python-decode-utf-16-file-with-bom | |
| def decode_legacy(file_name): | |
| encoded_text = open(file_name,'rb').read() | |
| bom = codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE | |
| assert encoded_text.startswith(bom) | |
| encoded_text= encoded_text[len(bom):] | |
| decoded_text= encoded_text.decode('utf-16le') | |
| return decoded_text |
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