See open about how to specify the encoding of the files you read or write. I would just blindly try out both

open(FILE, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "test.txt") or ...
#or
open(FILE, "<:encoding(iso-8859-1)", "test.txt") or ...
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and see if that works. If not, you would have to find out the real encoding of your file and use that instead