String Encoding in Python [duplicate]

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I have strings like these - Trang chủ and Đồ Dùng Nhà Bếp which have special charaters. When i print them, they are shown as it is. But when I convert it into Json, it changes to Trang ch\xe1\xbb\xa7. How can I print them as they are in JSON format also? Thanks in advance.

I tried the suggested answer of -

string.encode('utf-8', "ignore")

string.decode("ascii", "ignore")

and got this error:

UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', 'Trang ch\xe1\xbb\xa7', 8, 9, 'ordinal not in range(128)')

Is there a way around?

The link provided as duplicate is not the question I was asking.

The answer provided does solve my question : json.dumps(your_string, ensure_ascii=False)

Python 2 or 3? Where does the data come from? What's the code that's handling it? — deceze
– deceze ♦, Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 9:55
@deceze - python 2.7.6 The data is coming from a Thai website. I was scraping it for some work. — Dreams
– Dreams, Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 10:03
@sagar - I tried the suggested answer of - string.encode('utf-8', "ignore") string.decode("ascii", "ignore") and got this error - UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', 'Trang ch\xe1\xbb\xa7', 8, 9, 'ordinal not in range(128)') — Dreams
– Dreams, Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 10:03
I recommend looking at this: stackoverflow.com/questions/1885181/… — Petzku
– Petzku, Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 10:03
@Petzku - Thanks. But when I tried store = ast.literal_eval(store). Here store is dictionary. I get an error - ValueError('malformed string',) — Dreams
– Dreams, Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 10:10

ElmoVanKielmo · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-22 11:21:14Z

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Just use:

json.dumps(your_string, ensure_ascii=False)

This will disable escaping non-ascii characters.

answered Jun 22, 2015 at 11:21

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