How to read correctly Japanese characters from a file without (escape sequences) “\ufeff” and “\u3000” values in strings?

Question

I have the next Japanese text which I have to separate in strings by their lines ('\\n'). The text is called 'sonnet.txt'

さよなら夜の教室

Once I open the file and split the text to an array of lines.

file = open('sonnet.txt', encoding="utf-8")
jP = file.read().split('\n')

I've got the next result in the python prompt for the list.

>>> jP
['\ufeffさよなら\u3000夜の教室',]

Is there a way possible to get rid of the "\" and "\　" parts, not for this stored value, but in general for other kinds of words? Thank you.

Answer 1

Actually I wrote your code and made sonnet.txt text file, but I didn't get the same result.

My output was: ['さよなら夜の教室']

By the way, I suggest doing like this:

file = open('sonnet.txt', encoding="utf-8")
jP = file.read().replace('\ufeff', '').replace('\u3000', '').split('\n')
print(jP)

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