Right way to write string into UTF-8 file?

[Winfried]

Thanks much for the tip on open(…, encoding='utf-8')!

I've also learned that UltraEdit (famous Windows editor) encodes files in Latin1 while PyScripter (IDE) uses UTF-8, so the latter is a much better alternative when working with accented strings.

stuff = "Crème"
with open("cp1252.txt", 'w') as outFile:
	outFile.write(stuff)
with open("utf8.txt", mode='w',encoding='utf-8') as outFile:
	outFile.write(stuff)

Using open() without any additional option meant that I ended up with a mix of Latin1 and UTF-8, which prevented me from using GpsBabel to merge GPX files.

I am using Python 3(.7.0).

Thanks again.

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Edit: UltraEdit seems to have been rewritten to use Unicode instead.