Python print french characters to another file

Question

Whenever I print a french character (for example "é") in another file using python, it changes it to a weird character.

program.py :

f = open("file.txt", 'w')
print("é, è, ç", file=f)

file.txt :

�, �, �

So please does anyone know how to print out french characters to any other files as they are?

Answer 1

You can try using UTF-8 encoding:

f = open("french.txt", 'w', encoding='utf-8')
print("é, è, ç", file=f)

# é, è, ç

The default encoding is platform dependent, but any encoding supported by Python can be passed. See the codecs module for the list of supported encodings.

Answer 2

def wordlist(filename): f = open(filename, mode='r') text = f.read() print(text) wordlist = [fixCaps(w) for w in re.findall(r"[\w']+|[.,?;,]". text)] print(wordlist) f.close() return wordlist