def get_encodings(hint_encoding='utf-8'):
    """Used to try different encoding.
    Function copied from Odoo 11.0 (odoo.loglevels.get_encodings).
    This piece of code is licensed under the LGPL-v3 and so it is compatible
    with the LGPL-v3 license of OdooRPC::

        - https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/11.0/LICENSE
        - https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/11.0/COPYRIGHT
    """
    fallbacks = {
        'latin1': 'latin9',
        'iso-8859-1': 'iso8859-15',
        'cp1252': '1252',
    }
    if hint_encoding:
        yield hint_encoding
        if hint_encoding.lower() in fallbacks:
            yield fallbacks[hint_encoding.lower()]

    # some defaults (also taking care of pure ASCII)
    for charset in ['utf8', 'latin1', 'ascii']:
        if not hint_encoding or (charset.lower() != hint_encoding.lower()):
            yield charset

    from locale import getpreferredencoding
    prefenc = getpreferredencoding()
    if prefenc and prefenc.lower() != 'utf-8':
        yield prefenc
        prefenc = fallbacks.get(prefenc.lower())
        if prefenc:
            yield prefenc
Used to try different encoding.
    Function copied from Odoo 11.0 (odoo.loglevels.get_encodings).
    This piece of code is licensed under the LGPL-v3 and so it is compatible
    with the LGPL-v3 license of OdooRPC::

        - https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/11.0/LICENSE
        - https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/11.0/COPYRIGHT