I have some mailing information in a Mysql database that has characters from various other countries. The table says that it's using latin-1 encoding. I want to send this data out as JSON.
So I'm just taking each datum and doing 'name'.decode('latin-1') and adding the resulting Unicode value right into my JSON structure before doing .dumps() on it. This seems to work, and I can consume the JSON with another program and when I print values, they look nice with the special characters and all. I was reading though, that JSON files must be encoded with UTF-8. So should I be doing string.decode('latin-1').encode('utf-8')? Or does the json module do that for me when I give it a unicode object? Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list