BeautifulSoup does not parse xml with other encoding than utf-8

Question

I can read all xmls files that starts with but I can not read the files starts with

Answer 1

Coincidentally I stumbled upon another workaround. Read the file in binary mode ('rb'):

with open('tests/xml-iso.xml', 'rb') as f_in:
    xml_soup = Soup(f_in.read(), 'xml')