How to print special characters from a text file

Question

I want to read a text file and print the contents in my windows consol. But special characters are scrambled.

config.txt

[
  {
    "beer": "øl",
    "eel": "ål",
    "egg": "æg"
  }
]

code.py

text = open("config.txt")
print(text.read())

Windows console output python code.py :

[
  {
    "beer": "Ã¸l",
    "eel": "Ã¥l",
    "egg": "Ã¦g"
  }
]

Answer 1

open() needs to know the enconding of the text file. Change the code to this:

code.py

text = open("config.txt", encoding="utf-8")
print(text.read())

Result when running python, Windows console output python code.py :

[
  {
    "beer": "øl",
    "eel": "ål",
    "egg": "æg"
  }
]