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("file.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