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

import codecs
#open it with utf-8 encoding 
f=codecs.open("myfile.txt","r",encoding='utf-8')
#read the file to unicode string
sfile=f.read()

#check the encoding type
print type(file) #it's unicode

#unicode should be encoded to standard string to display it properly
print sfile.encode('utf-8')
#check the type of encoded string

print type(sfile.encode('utf-8'))