title: Read UTF-16 csv with Apache Beam/ Dataflow in Python
body: <p>The issue that is regarding the reading of csv files with UTF-16 formatting. The installed Apache Beam is version 2.7.0 with Python2.7. On the github of Apache Beam it is being said that the function <code>ReadAllFromText(PTransform)</code> cannot handle UTF-8 [1].
  Is there a alternative to read UTF-16 csv files with Apache Beam?</p>
  
  <p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py</a></p>