Python. Characters are written to the file instead of Cyrillic. How to decode it?

Question

Python

An excerpt from a file into which Russian characters were written:
recipientname="Kalik Mamadho.."

tree.write(new_file_name)  # Tree is a xml (ElementTree.parse(file))

with open(new_file_name, 'r') as xml_document:
     xml = xml_document.read().replace('\n', '')

How to decode this?

Answer 1

Answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62720040/decod...