Trying to translate UTF or Unicode file that contains Chinese characters

[stephenh...@u.northwestern.edu]

I am trying to decode a txt file using

 

q= [line.rstrip() for line in open('Chinese_Names_Test')]

but I receive this

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 47: character maps to <undefined>

I realize the error comes because the Decoder is using cp1252 but how can I do this in UTF or Unicode? I have to save the txt file in UTF or Unicode to keep the Chinese Characters.  Many thanks.