Changing default encoding

[Martin v. Löwis]

"jean.moser" <jean.moser at wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Word is my word-processing tool.I can save the files in txt format
> but special characters like é are transformed in \xe9 when I read
> the files in Python.

That is not the case. They are not transformed to \xe9. Why do you
believe such a transformation happens?

> How do I proceed to get the original files in latin-1 ?

They still have the original latin-1.

Regards,
Martin