Read a text file with non-ASCII characters in an unknown encoding

Question

I want to read a file that contains also German and not only characters. I found that i can do like this

  >>> import codecs
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Answer 1

I believe the file is being read correctly but is using the wrong encoding when output. This is based on the fact that you get the proper results in IDLE.

I would suggest trying to use print(line.encode('utf-8')) but I'm afraid I don't know if Python 3 will print a bytes object properly.