title: how can I read in octet-stream file and convert to utf-8?
body: <p>I have got an Application/octet-stream file and want to read into memory encoded as utf-8. How can I do that with Python ?
  what is actually Application/octet-stream?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>import codecs
  codecs.open('file/name','rb',encoding='utf-8',errors='ignore')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it does not work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>the result is 
  
  u'\xOOA\x00r\x00'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what I want is in alphabet</p>
  
  <p>thank you very much</p>