Hello,
I have an anoying problem that is giving me a hard time these days... I would like to develop a few webservices for my own usage and currently i am fighting with my damn french accents to be rendered correctly in my json outputs.
Here is my scenario: I retrieve a number of lines from my database that i put in a dict. What i want to do next is pass this dict to json.dumps and output the result.
The problem is: strings containing accents are rendered as utf8 so for example it gives me the following ouput \u00e9milie (it should be émilie). What is frustrating is that if i print each returned line, accents will be correctly rendered in my browser.
Questions:
- Is it normal to give this kind of json output ?
- How can I 'simply' transform a dict containing accents to json ? (whis is vital for me since other websites will work with my output)
Here is the test i am running.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*
from json import dumps as json_dumps
import json
machaine = "une personne émérite"
print(machaine)
output = {}
output[1] = machaine
output[2] = machaine
output[3] = machaine
jsonoutput = json_dumps(output)
print jsonoutput