import pandas as pd import chardet import ftfy def read_csv_with_encoding(file_path): # Detect the file encoding with open(file_path, 'rb') as f: result = chardet.detect(f.read()) encoding = result['encoding'] # Try reading the file with the detected encoding try: df = pd.read_csv(file_path, encoding=encoding) return df except UnicodeDecodeError: # If the detected encoding fails, try other encodings for enc in ['utf-8', 'latin-1', 'cp1252']: try: df = pd.read_csv(file_path, encoding=enc, errors='replace') return df except UnicodeDecodeError: pass # If all encodings fail, try fixing the text with open(file_path, 'rb') as f: text = f.read().decode('latin-1', errors='replace') fixed_text = ftfy.fix_text(text) try: df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(fixed_text), encoding='utf-8') return df except UnicodeDecodeError: print(f"Failed to read {file_path} after trying multiple encodings and text fixes.") return None # Example usage file_path = 'path/to/your/csv/file.csv' df = read_csv_with_encoding(file_path) if df is not None: print(df.head()) else: print("Failed to read the CSV file.")