UTF-8 problem in python when reading chars

Question

I\'m using Python 2.5. What is going on here? What have I misunderstood? How can I fix it?

in.txt:

Stäckövérfløw

code.py

Answer 1

Use codecs.open instead, it works for me.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print """Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"\n"""
f = codecs.open('in','r','utf8')
for line in f:
    print line
    for i in line:
        print i,
f.close()