Saving utf-8 texts in json.dumps as UTF8, not as \u escape sequence

Question

sample code:

>>> import json
>>> json_string = json.dumps(\"ברי צקלה\")
>>> print json_string
\"\\u05d1\\u05e8\\u05d9 \\u05e6\\u05         


        

Answer 1

Thanks for the original answer here. With python 3 the following line of code:

print(json.dumps(result_dict,ensure_ascii=False))

was ok. Consider trying not writing too much text in the code if it's not imperative.

This might be good enough for the python console. However, to satisfy a server you might need to set the locale as explained here (if it is on apache2) http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/09/setting-lang-and-lcall-when-using.html

basically install he_IL or whatever language locale on ubuntu check it is not installed

locale -a 

install it where XX is your language

sudo apt-get install language-pack-XX

For example:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-he

add the following text to /etc/apache2/envvrs

export LANG='he_IL.UTF-8'
export LC_ALL='he_IL.UTF-8'

Than you would hopefully not get python errors on from apache like:

print (js) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 41-45: ordinal not in range(128)

Also in apache try to make utf the default encoding as explained here:
How to change the default encoding to UTF-8 for Apache?

Do it early because apache errors can be pain to debug and you can mistakenly think it's from python which possibly isn't the case in that situation