Reading non-ASCII characters from a text file

Question

I\'m using python 2.7. I\'ve tried many things like codecs but didn\'t work. How can I fix this.

myfile.txt

wörd

My code

Answer 1

It's the terminal encoding. Try to configure your terminal with the same encoding you are using in your file. I recomend you to use UTF-8.

By the way, is a good practice to decode-encode all your inputs-outputs to avoid problems:

f = open('test.txt','r')    
for line in f:
    l = unicode(line, encoding='utf-8')# decode the input                                                                                  
    print l.encode('utf-8') # encode the output                                                                                            
f.close()