Notes

I apologize for any confusion earlier. The Samanantar Corpus dataset primarily uses the ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) encoding for Indian languages, including Hindi. ISCII is an encoding standard specifically designed for representing Indian scripts.

When working with the Samanantar Corpus dataset, you may need to convert the data from ISCII encoding to a more commonly used encoding like UTF-8, which is widely supported by programming languages and tools.

If you're facing encoding issues while trying to load a file from the Samanantar Corpus dataset, you might need to perform encoding conversion. Here's how you can convert ISCII-encoded text to UTF-8 using Python:

```python
def iscii_to_utf8(iscii_text):
# Convert ISCII-encoded text to UTF-8
utf8_text = iscii_text.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode('utf-8')
return utf8_text

# Read ISCII-encoded text from file
with open('path_to_iscii_file.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
iscii_text = file.read()

# Convert ISCII-encoded text to UTF-8
utf8_text = iscii_to_utf8(iscii_text)
```

Replace `'path_to_iscii_file.txt'` with the actual path to the ISCII-encoded Hindi text file from the Samanantar Corpus dataset. The `iscii_to_utf8` function converts the ISCII-encoded text to UTF-8.

Please note that the exact details of the dataset's encoding and formatting may vary, so you should refer to the dataset's documentation for specific instructions on handling the data.