title: Why don't I see the hebrew characters, when I print text from an utf-8 file in Python?
body: <p>I'm trying to read hebrew from a text file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def task1():
      f = open('C:\\Users\\royi\\Desktop\\final project\\corpus-haaretz.txt', 'r',"utf-8")
      print 'success'
      return f
  
  a = task1()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i read it it shows me this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'[\xee\xe0\xee\xf8 \xee\xf2\xf8\xeb\xfa \xf9\xec \xe4\xf0\xe9\xe5-\xe9\xe5\xf8\xf7 \xe8\xe9\xe9\xee\xf1: \xf2\xec \xe1\xe9\xfa \xe4\xee\xf9\xf4\xe8 \xec\xe1\xe8\xec \xe0\xfa \xe7\xe5\xf7 \xe4\xe7\xf8\xed, \xec\xe8\xe5\xe1\xfa \xe9\xf9\xf8\xe0\xec \xee\xe0\xfa \xf0\xe9\xe5 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and many more.</p>
  
  <p>how do i read it? </p>