I struggled a lot with character encodings, and I am still surprised that many systems tend to store the used encoding *inside* the encoded text. That is like keeping the key to a safe inside it. I do not think that those systems understand the "encoding=utf-16be" or whatever encoding you state, *unless* it is coincidentally western-ascii-based and therefore guessable by hand anyway. In short, you should know the encoding before you open the file. Instead of relying on tools that "hack" the encoding out of the text, You should either know what encoding it is or enforce an encoding.
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