Character Encoding Problem with ReadList

Question

I have a .srt file (subtitle file) with the following text:

Chapitre 1 : Systèmes d'équations linéaires et matrices

However when I import it into Mathematica, using:

subRip = ReadList[subRibFile, String];

I get:

Chapitre 1 : Systèmes d'équations linéaires et matrices

How can I avoid that ?

Answer 1

This is a bit of a workaround, using "import" but it works !

subRipIm = Import[subRibFile, "Text", CharacterEncoding -> "UTF8"];
subRip = DeleteCases[StringSplit[ToString[subRipIm], "\n"], ""];