I have this letter 'à' in a file on python but when i read that file it print Ã\xa0

Question

I have this letter 'à' in a file
And when i open that using python it print
Ã\xa0
How To solve it
Thank you

Answer 1

Maybe your file is encoded with a charset different from utf-8.
You can probably check it by opening it with a text editor such as notepad++
You might be able to open it correctly from python, if you specify the encoding= keyword argument for the open() function. Something like:

with open('file.txt', 'r', encoding='latin_1') as file:
print(file.read())

Answer 2

Have you figured out the actual file encoding? It may be different from latin_1, is why I told you to check first.
You can find a list of all encodings that python understand, here :
https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#module-codecs

Answer 3

Tibor Santa
Thank you it works
But now the problem is with â
It prints ä

Answer 4

Tibor Santa
Thank you

Answer 5

I have had the same issues when I was using QPython3.

For some reason, special letters were corrupted, although that *never* happened with regular desktop Python and the very same script. 🙄

I basically closed my eyes and hoped, the issue would disappear. Which it didn't.

Answer 6

Ok then
Thank you HonFu

Answer 7

Hi Iren Yeger

Do you have any update on this?
I am experiencing the same error.
What code made you fix this, if you did fix this?

Kindest regards