title: German Umlaute in CSV as literals
body: <p>I have a csv that contains a field with German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) as literals such like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>b'Beitr\xc3\xa4ge'</code></p>
  
  <p>I've tried to read this <strong>.csv</strong> and just print the original words (<code>Beiträge</code>), but no matter what I do, I only seem to get <code>b'Beitr\xc3\xa4ge'</code> back.
  I've tried following all sorts of advice on how to convert to and from Unicode, I've tried both Python 2.7 and 3, but I'm stumped.</p>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>