Damn this is good. I had faced a similar issue where the CSV had mixed encodings. That time I never looked for a library, I read a few SO answers and created an

Damn this is good. I had faced a similar issue where the CSV had mixed encodings. That time I never looked for a library, I read a few SO answers and created an adhoc python script to make the file encoding uniform. Ftfy would have made my work simpler.