On 03/22/2018 01:09 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote:
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?
Reconfigure your MySQL database to use UTF-8. There is no reason to
use Latin-1 in the database.
If that isn't an option, make sure your JSON files are pure ASCII,
which is the common subset of UTF-8 and Latin-1.
ChrisA
It works the way I'm doing it. I checked and it turns out that
whether I do datum.decode('latin-1') or datum.decode('latin-1').encode('utf8')
I get identical JSON files after .dumps().
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