How to save äåö characters in Json file?

Question

I'm trying to dump everything from scrapy crawler into json file but äåö changes to something like \u00f6. How do I fix that?

@khelwood thanks, that makes sense... – Dastan Taibosunov May 14 '21 at 13:42 — Dastan Taibosunov, May 14 '21 at 13:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '21 at 13:42

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Use ensure_ascii=False

Ex:

import json

data = {"Hello": "äåö"}
print(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False))  # --> {"Hello": "äåö"}

Note: If ensure_ascii is true (the default), the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If ensure_ascii is false, these characters will be output as-is.

answered May 14 '21 at 13:42

Rakesh

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In some more detail, with `ensure_ascii` your text file is portable to any system, whereas without it you are opening the door for various character-encoding problems. Any *conformant* JSON processor will know that the encoding is guaranteed to be UTF-8, but homegrown scripts by beginners are more or less likely to crash or corrupt the data. Tomorrow you'll be back and ask us why Excel displays your _ö_ as _Ã¶_. – tripleee May 14 '21 at 14:27

How to save äåö characters in Json file?

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