If you have control of the SPSS file and you set Unicode on in SPSS, the sav file will be encoded in Unicode - utf-8. With any sav file from SPSS V15 or later, the encoding is written into the file header. If it isn't Unicode, it is determined by the SPSS locale setting.
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