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

If you are loading JSON string from a file & file contents arabic texts. Then this will work.

Assume File like: arabic.json

{ 
"key1" : "لمستخدمين",
"key2" : "إضافة مستخدم"
}

Get the arabic contents from the arabic.json file

with open(arabic.json, encoding='utf-8') as f:
   # deserialises it
   json_data = json.load(f)
   f.close()


# json formatted string
json_data2 = json.dumps(json_data, ensure_ascii = False)

To use JSON Data in Django Template follow below steps:

# If have to get the JSON index in Django Template file, then simply decode the encoded string.

json.JSONDecoder().decode(json_data2)

done! Now we can get the results as JSON index with arabic value.