Reading a file with french characters in Python

Question

I would like to read a file that contains french characters in Python such "é".I'm using these lines of code to do that:

import codecs
with codecs.open(r'C:UserschsafouaneDesktopsaf.txt', encoding='ascii') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        line 

Yet, I get a

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

To reproduce the error, the file I'm trying to read contains only one word: "Accélération". Is there a way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

For a fie including only this word "Accélération", utf-8 encodinf doesn't work and it returns the following error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

As proposed by @sciroccorics, latin-1 encoding works well and it returns the right word. So the chunk of code that works is the following:

import codecs
with codecs.open(r'C:UserschsafouaneDesktopsaf.txt', encoding='latin1') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        print(line)