This lightweight tool converts non-UTF-encoded (such as GB2312, GBK, BIG5 encoded) files to UTF-8 encoded files. It can either be executed from command line (CLI), or imported into other Python code.

[EDIT: I opened this because I saw a redundancy in a paragraph in Reference / 2. Lexical analysis / 2.1 Line structure / 2.1.4 Encoding declarations. I neglected to explain the problem and instead ...

There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...