How decode text (cp866) to text (utf8) using Python?

Question

I have many files encoded MS-DOS (cp866). It's russian characters. I want to decode them all using python scripts.
My code for one file:

with open("some_file.txt", "r", encoding="cp866") as myfile:
data = myfile.read()
data_encoding = data.encode("utf-8")
print(data_encoding)

Out:
\xe2\x95\xac\xe2... etc

I need:
"Аовраоаладад..."

Answer 1

I found a solution. I'm decoded text to "cp1251" charset and got a readable text.

code:
with open("some_file.txt", mode="r", encoding="KOI8-R") as myfile:
data = myfile.read()

b = bytes(data,"KOI8-R")
data_encoding = str(b,"cp1251")

print(data_encoding)

Answer 2

I can not test it, because i have no text in cp866. But you can try it with this:

result = text.encode('cp866').decode('cp866').encode('utf8')

Answer 3

Here is a link to a website where you can online input text with definition about encoding, and you can define the output encoding also:
https://2cyr.com/decode/

Answer 4

Valerii, very good!

Answer 5

Lothar thanks, but your code doesn't decide task

Answer 6

Can you explane whathappens? What is the output? Did you output on condole, or did you also output to a file?

Answer 7

Lothar I output "data" in console.
Because save to file uncorrectly data is foolish.