import codecs


def read_html_from_file(path_to_file):
    """Reads UTF-8 HTML file from disk and returns it as String.

    Args:
        path_to_file (str): Path to the file

    Returns:
        str: content of file as string
    """
    f = codecs.open(path_to_file, 'r', 'utf-8')
    print("reading file {}...".format(path_to_file))
    string = f.read()
    f.close()
    return string