Gettin non-english text from html doc

Issue

I'm trying to get a title of html document in python, but getting weird symbols. I guess that's because of encoding, but the html doc in utf-8 encoding. Is there any way I can get normal letters?

Here is code and what am I getting:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

 with open("index.html") as file:
     src = file.read()


soup = BeautifulSoup(src, "lxml")

title = soup.title.text

print(title)

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Solution

You need to specify an encoding type when opening the file:

 with open("index.html", encoding='utf-8') as file:
     src = file.read()

Answered By - Xiddoc