code: def load_utf_text_file(file_, default_encoding='UTF-8', use_utf8_strings=True):
      
      if isinstance(file_, my_basestring):
          with open(file_, 'rb') as f:
              buf = f.read()
      else:
          buf = file_.read()
      return decode_utf_text_buffer(buf, default_encoding, use_utf8_strings)
docs: Loads the specified text file and tries to decode it using one of the UTF encodings.
      :param file_: The path to the loadable text file or a file-like object with a read() method.
      :param default_encoding: The encoding to be used if the file doesn't have a BOM prefix.
      :param use_utf8_strings: Ignored in case of python3, in case of python2 the default
      value of this is True. True means that the loaded json string should be handled as a utf-8
      encoded str instead of a unicode object.
      :return: A unicode object. In case of python2 it can optionally be an str object
      containing utf-8 encoded text.