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?

Can you try with `f = open("file.txt", 'w', encoding='utf-8')`? ` — Abdul Niyas P M, Dec 27 '22 at 14:37
Does this answer your question? [Writing on text file, accents and special characters not displaying correctly](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33761993/writing-on-text-file-accents-and-special-characters-not-displaying-correctly) — Pranav Hosangadi, Dec 27 '22 at 14:46

Arifa Chan · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-27T15:01:19.313

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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.

edited Dec 27 '22 at 15:01

answered Dec 27 '22 at 14:38

Arifa Chan

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score -3 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 27 '22 at 16:05

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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

edited Dec 27 '22 at 16:05

Rich

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answered Dec 27 '22 at 14:37

Devansh Gupta

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This is completely irrelevant to the question asked – Pranav Hosangadi Dec 27 '22 at 14:45

Python print french characters to another file

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