Kivy: Android unicode test

main.py

import kivy
kivy.require('1.9.1')

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.properties import StringProperty
from os.path import join, dirname

root = '''
Button:
	text: app.filetext
	on_release: app.loadfile()
'''


class TestApp(App):
	filetext = StringProperty('Press Me')
	
	def build(self):
		return Builder.load_string(root)
	
	def loadfile(self):
		with open(join(dirname(__file__), 'unicode.txt'), 'rb') as f:
			text = f.read().decode('utf8').rstrip()
		self.filetext = text

if __name__ == '__main__':
	TestApp().run()

unicode.txt

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