utf-8 and latin-1 won't work while reading a csv file with pandas

Question

I am trying to read a CSV file which includes French characters (like é, à, etc.) and email addresses with pandas.

Encoding with utf-8 gives an error. Encoding with latin-1 eliminates my é.

Any idea what encoding I should use ?

Thanks, Chris

Answer 1

pd.read_csv(csv_file, encoding = 'iso-8859-1')

where 'iso-8859-1' is the encoding needed to properly represent languages from occidental Europe including France