string = "Hello World"

encoded_string = string.encode("utf-8")

print(encoded_string)

from io import open

f = open("test", mode="r", encoding="utf-8")

# insert in the first line of the file

​

#!/usr/bin/python3

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

​

# or

​

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import codecs # Python standard library

codecs.encode("A strange character","utf-8")

# this would give you the utf-8 encoded bytes

with open(ff_name, 'rb') as source_file:

  with open(target_file_name, 'w+b') as dest_file:

    contents = source_file.read()

    dest_file.write(contents.decode('utf-16').encode('utf-8'))

​

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

​

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Write your script here...

....