#cat READERWARE | iconv -f UTF-16BE -t UTF-8 | cat 
#how to convert READERWARE UTF-16 Big Endian to UTF-8 

file = open('READERWARE','r', encoding='utf-16-be')

line = file.readline()
while line:
    print(line)
    # use realine() to read next line
    line = file.readline()



Database Type: MySQL
Login Name: loginname
Password: pass
URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rwdb?serverTimezone=UTC
Driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Driver Location: /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java-8.0.19.jar
Script Location: /opt/readerware4/database/RW/mysql