Nadeem Vawda added the comment: No, that is the intended behavior for binary streams - they operate at the level of individual byes. If you want to treat your input file as Unicode-encoded text, you should open it in text mode. This will return a TextIOWrapper which handles the decoding and line splitting properly.
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