Encoding issue: UTF-16 LE with BOM encoding gets read as having spaces between all the characters

[kanarinka]

Here's the file in question
https://www.dropbox.com/s/afo8o8bilaqq3n6/UTF16_LEWITHBOM.txt?dl=0

Here are a couple interesting posts about it on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19328874/python-read-text-file-with-weird-utf-16-format
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603115/python-opens-text-file-with-a-space-between-every-character

[rahulbot]

Still failing in py3:

2020-05-25 14:09:07,184 - databasic.logic.filehandler - DEBUG - loading txt file
2020-05-25 14:09:07,198 - databasic.logic.filehandler - ERROR - Wasn't able to read the words from the file /var/folders/fb/lkll_1p966b2_hqz9s94q1v80000gq/T/LIKELYFAIL_UTF16_LEWITHBOM.txt
2020-05-25 14:09:07,199 - databasic.logic.filehandler - DEBUG - loaded 0 chars