Openine unicode files

[Terry Reedy]

Noorhan Abbas wrote:
> Hello,
> I wonder if someone can advise me on how to open unicode utf-8 files 
> without using the codecs library . I am trying to use the codecs.open() 
> from within Google Appengine but it is not working.  

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